Notices by beard :meru_dab: ひげ (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club), page 32

Video game graphics already look good enough. They have for the better part of the last decade and we are at the point of diminishing returns. Imo, the thing that AAA studios should be focusing more effort on is physics simulation. That will help the game worlds feel much more immersive, by exponential amounts. I want to see reactive water, cloth, dirt, sand, trees, grass, everything.

@LukeAlmighty I have the entirety of mostr.pub muted now, it's just ridiculous

I want to obliterate whoever thought these nostr bots were a good idea fuck off

Nintendo Switch 2 - Hardware Overview

#switch #nintendoswitch #meleehd #eldenring #halleffect #nso

@p @RealRaul @TrevorGoodchild I looked like that at 26

@mangeurdenuage cloud based windows has been around for a while

THERE IS AN ANIME CALLED BLACK ROCK SHOOTER

@LukeAlmighty I think that's the point lol

Damn, minus cooked with this one!!
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/minuspal/wond

#newgrounds #minuspal #daisy #princessdaisy

@prettygood @Fullmetal2255 I need to release my game first, then Jesus can come

@LukeAlmighty Condorman. Amazing action-comedy from 1981.

@LukeAlmighty i LOVE princess bride, what a great movie

@picandor i have a friend who developed an auto immune disorder that lowered is white blood cell count, or something along those lines, working for amazon.

@picandor we are hard workers, but we still want to be healthy and respect ourselves. there's more to life than just fucking slaving away at a job 6 days a week with 14 hour shifts. that's fucking ridiculous and anyone who puts someone else through that or puts themselves through that if its not their own business.... probably isn't actually human.

@LukeAlmighty yeah, something like that unfortunately doesn't work for a single player game. i WANT players to be able to overlevel if that's what they want to do, especially if they're playing on a higher difficulty. i just want to make sure that if they are going for that strategy, their characters level up at roughly the same rate instead of having one guy at level 27 and another at 19.

if it were a linear game it would be much easier, but it's not :P deadass, the sequel to god's disdain is going level up characters only through story progression. it'll work a lot better for the type of game it is, but it'll also be so much easier to balance. that's why i do leveling by story progression for D&D too.

Problem: Mages still level up extremely quickly, and it's mostly because once they have access to spells that can hit multiple enemies at once, they gain all of that EXP from the damage they deal very fast.

I've already increased the EXP curve for how fast they level, making it a little slower. I've already reduced the amount of damage that those all-enemy spells do. It's seemingly not enough, though, because Mages still start off on the weaker side and then absolutely shoot up around level 20.

So, I'm considering several options at the moment:

1) Further increase the EXP curve for mages. This will fix their progression in the early-mid game, but might make them much weaker in the end game and would require a lot of tuning that I don't fully have resources for (not enough people testing, nobody doing rigorous testing).

2) Level gate spells. Currently, all spells in the game (including all weapons and armors) do not have level gates and can be obtained at any point. This kind of goes with the philosophy of the openness of the game, but if it is breaking balance perhaps it is a good thing to put a bit of a clamp on it.

3) Increase the price of spells. Currently, the general layout from the single target spells is like this: 19/61/122/379. The all-enemy spell is 513. If I increase the price of all spells universally by a certain percentage, and/or increase the all-enemy spell by a larger amount, it could help prevent players from obtaining these massive spells too early.

4) Increase the SP needed for spells. I have noticed that Mages, once they hit a certain point, will very rarely run out of SP (due to some recovery upon level up) unless they're using something like Restore to recover the SP of other party members. Increasing the amount of SP needed for spells could help since they would have to be more considerate about using the all-target spells.

@bronze @Tony 1. Fox
2. Wolf
3. Cat
4. Raccoon
5. Squirrel/Mouse

@frost @lina @LukeAlmighty :emoji_cope:

@lina @LukeAlmighty thank goodness, I can finally stop

@Kyonko802 @mischievoustomato @Yakotarun I've never seen people addicted to porn personally, but I have seen people get addicted to video games and it's definitely not good. There's a clear difference between addiction and enjoyment. Guy in the YT video there was certainly addicted and I hope he's better now, but yeah a lot of people like that become kind of evangelical about it and develop a moral superiority complex.