8bitdo is a good buy. especially if you ever want to use it with a switch.

Powdertoy is surprisingly deep

on arc raiders yesterday my squad had another one cornered in a room and we got third partied by a much better kitted one. we asked the people we were trying to kill if they wanted to team up and kill the bigger threat and they agreed. and I warned them that the enemy was waiting outside so we needed to be careful…

they immediately ran outside, turned the corner, and I just saw a bunch of bloody mist coming through the open door. afterwards they all crawled back in on all fours and preceded to get set on fire in the hallway by the enemies.

I was almost crying from how hard I laughed

back when I played Roblox as a kid it was a small, windows only Lego game. at a certain point the games on the platform because much higher quality (around 2015), and it was great for me as a broke kid who couldn’t afford a better PC or “real” games.

which is why I didn’t say anything when my little brother was asking my parents if he could play it. now I really wish I had because the entire platform is a cesspool of consumerism, gambling, and predators

nobody is helpless in pvp games like arc, i’ve squad wiped people who had far higher end gear than me during the play test, and had the same done to me. if you don’t enjoy competition then don’t play a pvp game??

thats what i was wondering too, the other guard dogs friendly fire all the time, but arc weapons normally one shot helldivers. im hoping that they either only shoot away from you or they do reduced damage to helldivers

a bit of damage reduction

it’s supposed to be sticky like a thermite, except it repeatedly stuns an enemy instead of blowing up. I’m kinda hoping it actually arcs instead of just being like a sticky stun grenade

Well there’s another reason I’m going to wait to emulate the switch 2.

Yeah that can be annoying, but it’s also rust’s greatest strength, no other game can match the intense rush you get during a fight in rust. and for more casual players there is modded servers with more plentify loot.

just pirate Minecraft at this point

I don’t understand it either, when I’m playing a video game (except for certain games that are very stylized) I want it to feel like I’m looking through my character’s eyes rather than a camera lens. Maybe it’s because they think that’s what people want when they watch a trailer?

don’t worry about it, turning off chromatic abberation, depth of field, motion blur, and lens flare is always the first thing I do when I boot up a game

Im playing with about 20 add-ons currently. do GAMMA and EFP offer quest lines? or maybe a story to progress through?. because thats the one thing I think anomaly is lacking.

its the most popular addon for stalker anomaly, just sort by most downloaded of all time. oh and maybe install the other mods it recommends to go with it. they add finishing touches to the game that make it really immersive

An 8bitdo Ultimate 2 or Gamesir Cyclone 2 are the best options, they have built in rechargeable batteries and they’re the best in every other regard. they also work wired, just like nearly every other wireless controller nowadays.

the games will still run at 1080p, or 720p but be upscaled to 4k using dlss, xess, or fsr

Stalker Anomaly is available to download for free on moddb.com, and its actually a modded version of the original games. but GSC has allowed them to redistribute the game for free.

I am pretty sensitive to stutter and 1% lows, so maybe I’m just being nit picky. what fixed it for me was downloading a complete shader cache for the games I had stutter problems with.

The steam deck just barely emulates the switch, so I think switch 2 emulation is out of the question unless there is serious performance hacks. Ryujinx likely would have been able to emulate the switch 2 one or two years after launch just like what happened with dolphin and the Wii. but Nintendo illegally got them shut down

Honestly I don’t see myself getting a switch 2 until its able to be emulated. and I’m buying it and all the games used so I don’t have to support Nintendo financially

I used to play Roblox a lot, and there definitely is some fun to be had on that platform but its not really a proper game developing software. your “game” is completely reliant on roblox’s servers and site, and they have control over anything you do on roblox. Roblox is a lot simpler than developing a “real” game, so I think it’s closer to garry’s mod than unity or Godot.