I’m gonna start a weekly Sunday evening thread where we all talk about what we’ve been playing the past week.

I have been doing a replay of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice this week. It’s one of my favorite games and I was surprised how much muscle memory Ive retained for most of the major boss fights.

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    8 months ago

    I’m playing stardew. Apparently the 1.6 update is a big deal but it’s like my 2nd time playing it and I never got past the second year so I know fuck all about the game. It’s at once a fun chill relaxing game and also very hectic getting all my farm chores done in a day. I have a friend who actually knows what they’re doing and it’s very fun to insist on having them help around the farm but not be allowed to teach me the deep lore.

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      Hell yeah, I’m back on my Stardew Valley bullshit. If you ever need guidance, check the wiki, it’s very comprehensive (although it might be missing some of the 1.6 stuff still). I haven’t played it in a couple years, so it’s nice!

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    8 months ago

    I went through Mega Man X and was probably going to go through them up to 4, from what I hear the series took a nose dive after that and they even made a 3D one? Gotta pace them a little bit because it’s brutal on my hands.

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    8 months ago

    Still mucking around with my old mmorpgs, I have Everquest, Ultima Online, and Final Fantasy XI in rotation. I tried to play some MGS Peace Walker but either I suck or the controls are wonky and I ended up not really liking it. Feel like as I get older RPGs like mmos or JRPGs are more my speed now.

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    Helldivers II: Just picked this up to play with some friends from a former job. It’s a ton of fun with a good group, and the hit-you-over-the-head-with-a-hammer Western imperialist satire adds a lot.

    Soulstone Survivors: Vampire Survivors with more active combat and build variety.

    Dead Rock Galactic Survivor: Vampire Survivors with mining and aiming.

    Splatoon 3: Tracking down the final uncollected palette chips in Side Order. Team Baby Chicks will win this weekend, mark it down.

    Splatoon: baby chicks vs. baby bunnies vs. baby bears

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      8 months ago

      Soulstone Survivors is good shit. Do you like Dead Rock Survivors would you recommend it even in this early stage ?

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        DRGS is very polished already! It’s at the state where all it really needs is More Stuff. Mining materials gets you currency for both in-run upgrades and overall stat upgrades, plus you can carve out paths to escape danger or funnel enemies. Weapons have decent variety and are satisfying, and the levels give you just enough time to explore before it’s time to beat the boss and escape.

        Once they add some more levels and objective variety, it’ll really shine, but even now it’s one of the best examples of the genre.

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    8 months ago

    bought darkest dungeon (1) cause it was $3 and its been great, no deaths yet so overconfidence will definitely be my slow and insidious killer

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      It’s usually bosses or mini bosses that you aren’t prepared for that will get most of your deaths. I’ve never actually beaten DD because I get burnt out and then always start a new campaign when I come back to it, but it’s a lot of fun.

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    Been playing some modded Minecraft. Working on my rail network train-shining. I automated iron production but need far more gravel supply to keep up with the amount of iron for rail and machinery for more factories. The productive forces must grow denguin

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        I’m playing Create Astral. I’ve been on that pack for a year, haven’t gotten too far because I’ve put some restrictions on myself and not played super actively. I really wanna get back to Forge packs to try Hex and some other mods, though.

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            It is very fun. It is a little bit expert mode though. Nothing crazy, just forces you to go through the planet progression for a lot of the machines, gates brass behind going to the moon, that kind of thing. I think it takes about 300 hours to complete solo if you just focus on progression.

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              Just made it to chapter 1, enjoying it so far. It’s enough different from packs I’ve played before to stay interesting, and I see some interesting possibilities with stone generation and sifting starting to show up on the progression roadmap, especially knowing that AE2 is coming eventually. I spawned in a seaside village, so I’ve wasted some time digging out and draining an underground base and not finding tin until I checked its optimal spawn y level.

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                You almost never dig deep in Create Astral, I do most of my mining by just diving into crevices in the ocean and finding lots of the resources I need. I have a stack of diamonds and a ton of gold that I literally never touch, very very rarely used in the first 4 chapters.

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                  I wasn’t even trying to dig deep, I just started at ground level like y=60. Speaking of digging deep though, I just went looking for lava and found that the world doesn’t stop at y=0 which is kinda neat.

                  EDIT: apparently that’s a vanilla thing now, the last version of minecraft I really played extensively was 1.12

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    Im still playing pokerogue, my current run started with a clodsire, cinderbunny and a turtwig all with good stat and natures thanks to eggs and catching them.

    I think this week im going to do a endless to see how far i get, with a meowstick with good ivs i got from an egg

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    I am up to 3 ships with victory cleared on FTL Advanced Edition on Normal difficulty. This was impossible for me even a few years ago.

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    I’ve been playing Stationeers. It’s interesting but also frustrating. It’s a space survival crafting game which focuses hard on realism, especially gas handling. So you need to make an atmosphere with the right proportions of nitrogen and oxygen to breathe in your base, and you need a breathable atmosphere to open your spacesuit helmet to eat and drink, and you also need to add some carbon dioxide to the atmosphere to grow plants, and you also need to keep the atmosphere at the right temperature range for both the plants and yourself.