[–] 11 points 3 months ago

DRG+Helldivers is the explaination I hear most. As someone who has over 500 hours in the former, and didn't really get caught up in the hype for the latter I gotta say, it's really fun.

Basically, you're dropped into a map with a primary objective that you must complete, then move onto a boss fight, and finally run to an extraction zone after that. There are a bunch of additional side questy type things to do on each map as well. The gameplay itself is a lot of hoarde clearing, classic 'circle strafe and shoot' gameplay.

There are two things which give this game this game some extra spice. First, there's a magic system where you can take 3 spells per mission, these are elemental and the elements have different interactions (eg fire spells will cause acid from acid spells to explode). The other thing is wildcards, which drop from enemies and events which provide random buffs for the remainder of the mission, these have the classic rarity based color system from....like everything, and while they hit the dopamine receptors, they don't change gameplay too much.

There are different weapons to unlock, character stats to distribute, and a system where you unlock equipable cards so that you can go into a run with some buffs already applied.

I bought the game on a whim to try it out yesterday and ended up accidentally spending 4 hours in there. I'd say if you like DRG or Helldivers its at least worth a try, you can always refund if it's not your vibe.

PS: When you finish a mission, you are immediately presented with the option to start a new mission or head back to the hub which is such an insanely nice QoL thing for back to back runs.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I think when you get to the point that you are providing the service, and taking money for it, it stops being satire. They even pulled the "well somebody is going to make money off this anyway so why not us".

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Honestly 2k is fine for most tvs, I wish that became standard. Imo 4k should be reserved for computer screens and the like, that are less than a metre from you, most people can't really see the difference anyway, it all depends on screen size and distance. From memory a 60inch at 2m will not look any different in 1080 or 4k.

    Also side rant, drives me mad when people are more worried about resolution than bitrate (not directed at anyone here) . I have a friend who "can't stand watching things in 1080p" but half the 4k streaming content is compressed to hell.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Hey mate, I was in the same spot roughly 6 months ago, and now have a pretty decent homeland hosting a bunch of services and it's been amazing! I don't really want to say what or how I set things up because I'm no where near competent enough to be offering guidance or advice, but I will say, if you have the time to knuckle down and learn, you can definitely do it! It's very intimidating but by no means insurmountably hard.

    If you have an old PC that you don't care about, you can just chuck some stuff on there to see if it's something you would want to get into, wIth little to no risk.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    I mean, I provided a second edit to clarify before this comment but if you want to ignore that, sure. I wrote the edits at around 3am which is why it read badly and I did the second one as soon as I realised the implication.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    That makes far more sense, and there is definitely egg on my face, I was very confused. My apologies for my initial comments tone, it really wasn't necessary.

    Thanks for clarifying in such a respectful manner, it wasn't really deserves after my initial comment. Have a wonderful day.

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