I find it hard to not notice the annoying musical instrument that are used for voice when you get hurt. I fall down one block too high and lose 0.1 hp and get my ears blasted with harmonica. Also the wolf snarl is pretty loud. Did you maybe disable some sounds?

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You can disable temporal storm and you are right, there is a peaceful mode where mobs will not attack you. You have to define those in the world config, in single player its easier to set them when initially creating the world.

It depends on how they want to play, but there are also surface baddies, such as wolves and bears, those can be a lot worse than the underground baddies, looking at you polar bears.

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Historically, combat has been pretty low on the players' wish list. Everybody always voted for more content and more realistic homesteading simulation. Now that those boxes are checked, and the dev team put a lot of efforts into making it awesome, the combat may be slowly getting on top of the stack of todos. But there are a lot of disagreement on how it should be done. Definitely not like Minecraft, as it ruined the game for a lot of players, which ended up moving to Vintage Story. :) Some people want something more along the lines of Valheim with parry and blocking but without the stamina, that would work for me, but the dev team doesn't seem to want that style of combat. One thing's for sure, they will need to get rid of hitscan-style hit detection, its just too limiting (the upper corner of that dead body's hit box is in the way? Sorry, your swing hits it and misses your intended target... WHAA!?). We'll have to wait and see what they comes up with.

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The next version should have dotnet 8 suppport, so that's a 6 to 9 months from now timeframe. Pretty good for an indy game dev team.

Also, obligatory comment on how great this game is. Been playing it for many years now. It just keeps getting better and better.

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I agree with what you say, and there are a lot of nice things about Ubuntu. I used it for almost 20 years as my desktop of choice. But right now its just broken. So many things that do not work as expected. Then you add the snap fiasco, and it was the breaking point for me. I like my applications to start instantly and respect my system theme. I like my applications to be able to print (yes, shipping labels mostly). Have you tried to print stuff with snap apps? It never works. You fix it, yay, my snaps print, then a few weeks or months later something changes again in an update and it won't work again. And the fix is different most of the time. Nah, not going back to that mess. I installed linux Mint on my wife's computer and it works way better. On my own I gave Arch a try (through EndeavourOS) and while it has a lot of rough edges, it still works better than modern Ubuntu, so I don't see a reason to distro hop and try something else for now.

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Wow, it is an awesome bundle with great games! But I already own most of them, so no buying from me... but if you don't own these games, go for it. The Kingdom games are great, and Skald and Star Renegades are both masterpieces. It's a crazy good deal.

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Looks interesting. Since we are never going to get Horizon Chase 2 because of that damned Epic Store eclusivity, this looks like a good replacement. I'll have to check it out.

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This game is pretty awesome, if you have been on the fence whether to buy it or not, I'd say definitely do it. The C64 palette pixel art is awesome and the music is great. Gameplay needs a few tweaks to make it harder at high level (it gets too easy), but overall its a great game.

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If at least they fixed the buttons order and made it like the Nintendo layout. There's no way I can unlearn that layout after having used it for so long.

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Alright, that's an Advance Wars clone, it looks liek it, it feels like it, it probably smells like it too. Disable the animations and I'm 100% all in.

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