What’s everyone on /m/gaming playing lately?

I’m still making my way through the Diablo IV campaign, really enjoying that but looking forward to blasting and figuring out if I enjoy the endgame more than anything at this point. I’m a binge Path of Exile player but the past few leagues haven’t really done it for me. It’s been nice to play an ARPG again and I’m enjoying D4’s slower pace. Zoom zoom is great in POE, but it’s nice to get back to basics a little bit.

Went with Whirlwind Barbarian. Know it’s meta, but Cyclone Slayer is my favorite POE build so I’m just trying to enjoy my time as the overpowered class rather than fighting it haha.

Played through the Lies of P demo as well and thought it was mostly great. Not the greatest example of gameplay for the genre IMO, but the production values and the vibe were stellar.

How about you guys?

  • lvxferre@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For dupe (duplicant) skill trees, Francis John has a great tutorial, but as a general guide:

    • You’ll want to specialise your dupes but not too much. It’s fine to mix skills a bit.
    • It’s better to mix activities if they’re all performed outdoors (building, digging) or all indoors (cooking, farming).
    • Worst hypothesis, use the skill scrubber, so don’t feel afraid to experiment.
    • Don’t assign skill points just because they’re available. Consider morale.
    • Doctoring is usually not useful. I simply pretend that it doesn’t exist.
    • Decorating and cooking are useful, but one dupe with each task is enough. (Or one with both - decorating isn’t too frequent.)
    • Almost everyone benefits from Improved Carrying I and II. Late game you’ll probably want to assign them Exosuit Training.
    • Francis John’s video is old and the skill tree changed in the meantime, so take that into account.

    If you meant instead the tech tree, a few tricks:

    • The top is usually more important than the bottom. For example if unsure about researching food or decor, go with food, as it’s way up.
    • Things requiring only basic research (blue) and advanced research (purple) are specially critical, but your dupes can survive quite a while without materials research (yellow) or interstellar research (orange).