That is what their marketing wants you to think, the reality is going to be its just another soulless shallow designed-by-committee AAA rpg. Nothing ive seen so much has led me to believe otherwise and they have quite a streak of bad games to break.

I remember trying it quite a few years ago but it was too much work to learn to play it at the time, I knew how long it usually takes for games like DF, kenshi or rimworld to click and wasn’t sure if star sector is worth it when I had x3, factorio, m&b to occupy me.

I am always tempted to give it a try but the number of new complex games keeps increasing while the number of my brain cells keeps dropping xd

Lemmy is a public forum, discord servers are usually for invite-only, more closed-off communities, and we’re not talking about a lemmy replacement but rather how this is inadequate as a discord replacement.

I don’t know about discord issues, the hype behind is it mostly that it’s free, very convenient, feature rich and can easily integrate bots. Its the go-to place to build communities nowadays.

Matrix issues that I read about can be seen here https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07 . I haven’t done my own research tho so I don’t know if all of this is (still) true

Hope we get some comparable options yet, I only know of matrix and that one allegedly has tons of security and performance issues.

Check out against the storm for a fun and difficult game

Yeah, that’s always good advice, I don’t mind missing out on hype since I’d be playing single player anyway. Enshrouded is also out and it might turn out to be the better option too, who knows. Seems like a good start of the year for survival games enjoyers either way.

Id hope they use the popularity to improve it further but I really don’t wanna get invested in the same way I have with valheim, they have been mostly resting on their laurels so far and these developers will probably do the same. I hope I’m wrong tho, seems like a game I’d enjoy if it had more depth.

I’d suggest valheim but I’m not sure how is the performance nowadays, our rented servers struggled a lot with only 3-4 people and I think 10 is the max. Sailing was especially very laggy and glitchy because if it unfortunately.

What makes these two better?

I doubt they would sell the engine but it would be nice if we had good modding tools and map editors like in NWN for example, custom maps and campaigns could keep bg3 alive for a long time - especially considering that they have no plans for expansions afaik

Maybe for you but I miss interacting with actual developers, personalities or other content creators that post and respond on reddit or twitter. Mastodon and lemmy/kbin only get second hand crossposts (if even that), without any of the actual interaction and back-and-forth that usually happens. I’m still hoping it takes off eventually but if the “big exodus” didn’t do it I don’t see it changing at all for the foreseeable future.

The genie is out of the bottle and discord is unfortunately here to stay for the foreseeable future. What we need are good reliable tools to export all this data to an external service / knowledge base. At least that way they could be picked up by web search and be accessible without a discord account one day down the line when discord goes to shit.

I guess the point I have an issue with here is ‘ability to do things not specifically trained on’. LLMs are still doing just that, and often incorrectly - they basically just try to guess the next words based on a huge dataset they trained on. You can’t actually teach it anything new, or to put it better it can’t actually derive conclusions by itself and improve in such way - it is not actually intelligent, it’s just freakishly good at guessing.

You’re bunding all of it together. I don’t want EA to run their marketing campaign or mastodon (although why not - it’d add legitimacy to the platform and I can easily block/not follow them), but I do want smaller youtubers posting there, I want artists to share news or boost other artists. I want developers to post announcements about what they are working on or when an update drops for their game. I want developers to have their personal accounts there and share stories about the development too.

All of this i get on twitter. I haven’t gotten any of it on mastodon because none of these people have moved off twitter, and never will because mastodon doesn’t want to give them a platform on which they can reach the same audience.

The moment you get actual content creators to move off twitter and provide their content on mastodon, I’m deleting it too. Until then I don’t really see mastodon being a proper replacement, if anything it looks like bsky is taking the lead in that area unfortunately. Besides, half of mastodon community is seemingly against the idea of becoming mainstream anyway… so I dunno if it’s ever going to work out that way.

Riftbreaker has a much more “hands on” action approach rather than being an RTS but you might like it, it’s a good game.

Im also waiting for Diplomacy is not an option to leave early access, seems like a promising title although it’s kinda simple.

Would you say Age of Darkness is worth buying now or should I wait until it’s completed? It looked interesting but reviews are mixed when it comes to bugs, technical performance and content overall.

What? 😥 I was/am so hyped for TWAU2, the first one was awesome. Why is that studio so cursed…

Ty for this, just did it. Like hell im going to trust some summary from a glorified autocomplete algorithm, ive seen them get it completely wrong and interpret it in biased ways.

I do like 4x and GSG titles for their complexity but I miss the strategy games where you see the actual units moving around. Even better if you are one of those units! Real time action also always ends up being reflex /speed / micro oriented rather than depend on slow strategy so I’m not sure if this is one of those cursed problems and they can’t coexist…

Are you following a lot of hashtags? To me that was just a recipe to disaster, my feed almost became as deranged and unhinged as the “federated” feed which at times made twitter look tame. I mostly just follow a few people now that seemed like they are posting interesting stuff, hoping their boosts or favorites would lead to other like-minded people (it didn’t).

The more LLM stuff gets banned the better. I’m really tired of seeing those “AI summaries of articles” that are completely unreliable since they change the tone, miss important bits, show bias or sometimes add completely new made up sentences to it. If you want to make a summary write it yourself instead of relying on a glorified auto complete tool to do it for you…

Yep, without actual big content creators the platform is just randos talking about their private life. That’s not inherently a bad thing but Mastodon often feels to me more like Facebook for software developers than something like Twitter where’d if actually find interesting new people to follow or art/music/games to enjoy.

Lack of proper discovery tools and algorithm is also a big issue.

Funny you’d bring FFXIV up, I guess you haven’t been around for EW’s release? :D

I’ve initially followed hashtags and then my feed was filled with absolute crap since everyone tags even irrelevant things all the time, not to mention posts in other languages (but not marked as such so they don’t get filtered). Like following gaming, steam, linux is just asking for trouble, but even if you follow something smaller you don’t get stuff about the game - you get stuff about people that like that game. Following steamdeck just filled my feed with people complaining about it or saying how its collecting dust for them.

Then I started following people instead and as few hashtags as possible. Now my feed is 40% them talking about their pets, kids, tech stacks or daily representation issues or anxiety, 30% is rants about social networks and fediverse, 20% actual tech news and 10% is sometimes actual interesting new content or pictures.

Maybe its a learning curve, maybe I just have different expectations since whenever I bring it up people just respond “it is its own thing, not twitter”. It’s not bad, but it’s not really what I want either.

It’s hard to say since there are major security issues with that. I think it’d be better if we weren’t anonymous but we’re not really ‘there’ yet mentally and culturally and it’d be used for nefarious purposes.

I do often wish I knew who I was talking to for real because I’d have vastly different behavior if I’m talking to a 15 year old kid, a 30 year old redneck or a 50 year old doctor for example.

It is twitter:fediverse edition, but without the algorithm showing you content you’re interested in so you just get random thoughts from unknown people. Some people prefer it that way, I personally struggle finding useful or interesting things in my feed.

Please please please let this be the breaking point at which big online personalities switch to mastodon, or at least start using those crossposting tools. That’s the only thing I miss from twitter and something RSS cant replace

Jedi Academy

What does ‘making changes to its core system’ mean? I though people were able to use steam deck as a proper pc already, installing new apps on it and stuff like that?

Star wars jedi power battles. More people need to know about the second best jedi game with the worst title that ever existed.

Citizen Sleeper (discounted on GOG rn!) is really good. The timed elements are not as stressful as I thought they might be and the overall story is interesting enough to keep me playing. It does feel a bit too easy in the later stages, and I’m afraid I might have made a decision that is gonna end the game for me too early, but otherwise I’m having fun with it, can definitely recommend it if you want a sci-fi story-based / resource management game.

Kbin deserved to win in that case.

Nobody is saying it doesn’t “deserve” to win, whatever that means in a federated non-profit social network. The issue is that kbin probably wouldn’t be an asshole that intentionally created compatibility issues with lemmy just because they are in a superior position on the market in order to kill its ‘competition’. Meta absolutely will without a second thought.

I recommend checking this article out https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

@ericflo@lemmy.ml as well

But the goal isn’t to replace patreon with people that have to sign up for discord, it’s to reach people who are already on discord and aren’t funding the creator on patreon. Surely that’s a huge untapped market, discord must have millions of daily users by now. You’re not losing 7%, you are gaining 90% per each new customer obtained this way.

Exactly, I can go to discord and create a new server with a few clicks. Even as a somewhat tech savvy person I am not that confident about setting up a server, securing it properly, making it scalable for large amount of users, handling data storage and backups and all that.

I imagine 7% isn’t that much of a “loss” when compared to how much larger the market on discord is and how convenient it’s going to be for these users to start spending on MTX.

How can revolt “remove” a server since you can connect to any custom hosted server? It’s like saying lemmy removed an instance.

And besides, I’m pretty sure that is something that federated instances will have to worry about too, you might not care about your local laws but the ISP or hosting provider of your server where possibly illegal data is, will care.

I LOVED control and the vibe in it, I read every dossier and listened to every audiolog and projection and I just wanted more by the end 😁. I really hope a sequel is being made.

But… they are literally the mods of r/antiwork, a community based around calling out unfair treatment by bosses and gathering strength to quit and find better employment.

You can’t make this shit up, it’s so stupid - it’d be unbelievable if it weren’t for the fact that it actually happened.