Quoting: PhiladelphusI played the demo when it came out for Steam Next Fest last year, and just…wasn't sold on it. I found the graphics actually made things less comprehensible at a glance compared to FTL, unfortunately. (Like, the icons for each room being tiny and in the corner, rather than clearly spread out face-on on a floor tile of the room.) Now that it's out I should perhaps at least find video of someone playing it and see if that's been improved.

It wasn't improved at all. With the low contrast graphics and the no-feedback from crew and ship I find this very hard to play. In FTL if you hear heartbeats or a blaring alarm you know something requires your attention. When a room turns red, you see it even if you are not paying attention. In this game, if you are fixated on combat and the enemy shields, you will most likely not notice that a room is slowly turning from dark grey to the same dark grey with a slight shade of pink.

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I bought it, played it some, and asked for a refund. This game is not ready at all and needs a lot of love. There is zero feedback from the ship or the crew. No blaring alarm when your ship is on fire or has a leak, or when your hull integrity gets low. The crew will happily suffocate in silence, if your captain happens to die in silence, its game over. Etc... etc... etc. I can see it has potential, but in its current state it is not even close to FTL. Hopefully it will improve quickly, but I will wait a year or two before I revisit it.

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Quoting: xaviThe two Subset games have been cloned and published in same day!

https://subsetgames.com/

I was just about to post that too hehe. At the very least it shows how good their games are if people clone them outright.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: DrakkerThe game already works super well with proton. The only problem was the anti-cheat for multiplayer. Did they fix that?

Yes.

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!

It's also very nice to see that they care for Linux users, it might not be a native build, but they still acknowledge us and put in extra work for us. It's a win in my book.

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The game already works super well with proton. The only problem was the anti-cheat for multiplayer. Did they fix that?

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Can't wait to get my hands on this one. Looks totally amazing.

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- Picking up your tombstone will now try to stack items

Finally!

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Ahhh, Cube, good old times. I made quite a few levels for this game that made it into the official releases. I loved the simplicity and elegance of this engine, it's so much fun to make levels with it. It has a lot of restrictions, but in my book, that's a good way to spark creativity. Sauerbraten / Cube 2 was very fun to make levels for too, but you had so many possibilities that making levels took much longer than with the original Cube.

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Quoting: Chronarius

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThe second thing you describe is a temporal storm. Those happen every few days.

It does not only happen every few days IT ALSO HAPPENS FOR DAYS. For that time I should sit in my hut/shack/dirt hole?
Twiggling Thumbs and do nothing? Vintage Story is a good game, except this "temporal storm" bullshit! This has no use in the game then just to annoy you. Bring on some "real" stuff and not such "oh I need some shit to annoy the shit out of people" stuff.

The storms last for a fixed time, which is 8 or 10 minutes I think. You were probably spending time in a low stability area, and that is badly explained in the game. The storms are there for story purpose (albeit not in the game yet) and as a player, its the perfect time to farm for temporal gears (for those awesome translocators (teleporters)) and rusty gears (the currency in game). Build an area that gives you an advantage against the endless wave of drifters, go there when the storms are about to start and reap the rewards.

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The game is designed to be hardcore, a bit like the roguelike games of old, where you learn by playing, and not everything is in tutorials. Having grown on Rogue and Nethack, I feel right at home in there and I actually enjoy the learning process. There are also a large number of video guides on YouTube for everything, and there's a #gameplay channel on the official Discord where we will happily answer all your questions. There are also many semi-public servers where the communities are fantastic, my favorite is Aura Fury. The players already established on there will happily help you if you ask for it. There's almost always people on the AF discord voice channels that will happily answer any questions if you prefer live conversations.

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