Pinsir was actually my first favorite Pokémon, but it’s just one of dozens of great creepy-crawlies in that series. Hornet, the spider woman assassin! Cornifer, that delightful (mosquito? My insect identifying skills are poor) mapmaker! The Dung Defender, about who I’m trying to write an article! The Bug Elder! The Hunter! The Hive Knight, who vomits out a swarm of bees in a way that does look less gross than that sounds! These weirdoes are all so delightful, as is their beautiful and whimsical and grotesque world.Īnd it’s not just them! That picture is one I took in New Pokémon Snap it’s got famous Bug-type rivals Heracross and Pinsir in a donnybrook. I mean insects, arthropods, arachnids… bugs! I’ve been replaying Hollow Knight – and you better know I’ve managed to get through almost all of it with far more speed and skill than I did two years ago! – and damned if all those adorable bug people aren’t fun. Let’s talk bugs – and not the kind in your software. Weekly Games Thread time! It’s the Avocado’s one-stop shop for all kinds of games talk. Developer Joy Way today launched a surprise multiplayer alpha for its STRIDE VR parkour action game.Hello, all. The new mode, called ‘’ is available free to current owners of the game and offers up an ‘infection mode’ which works like a high stakes game of tag. The original Stride launched on Steam in early access last year to generally positive reviews, giving players a parkour action experience with serious Mirror’s Edge vibes. Today the studio dropped a surprise update which adds the ‘’ multiplayer alpha. The multiplayer alpha is technically a separate Steam package which is unlocked by owning the base game. The ‘’ multiplayer alpha includes a few maps and just one game mode for now the developer says it wants to collect feedback in order to “test our servers and decide how to develop the multiplayer in the future.” Image courtesy Joy Way You can find the base game here, and the multiplayer alpha here.ĭeveloper Joy Way says that while much of the team is working on porting the game to Quest, another part has been experimenting with a multiplayer mode which the studio says has been highly requested. While more modes are expected to come eventually, for now the only mode is ‘Zombie Horde’, which plays like a game of tag. Also known as ‘infection’ by many, the mode starts with a small number of taggers which chase down other players. Once tagged, a player becomes a tagger themselves, slowly turning the tide against the survivors until the entire server is chasing the last player.Ok, so it's been a long time coming, and the developers for this game have thusly been moved to other projects after being acquired by Ok, so it's been a long time coming, and the developers for this game have thusly been moved to other projects after being acquired by someone. (I literally forgot who it was.) But let's get down to it. What I seriously loved about this game was that it had a bunch of quirks and cuteness to it. The fact that you can design or edit some character models is fantastic in itself. I love the relationships they can build or destroy all on their own and the weather mechanic was indeed handy. The stress of getting the people with the right skills to the job and keeping them safe is not too overbearing, but it can get you sometimes. The music is lovely, it's score is definitely some to take with you on the go when you're on long road trips. (Trust me on this one, I put the main title theme of the game on one of my train trips. #Stonehearth multiplayer date movieĮpic? Like you're in your own movie kind of way.) And the fact that you don't have to follow each tribe's core atmosphere really does heighten the difficulty spike a wee bit. But enough gushing over how cute it is in its vloxy form. Let's get to what brought the score down a few pegs. It had severe issues and would just quit sometimes. They seemed to have added the thing to somewhat help 'fix' these issues, but I'm no programmer, I have no idea on what it is to fix or how it works. There was just so much that they added in before their departure to other projects, but not enough to help explain how this would work for us who have no idea on what to do. I get it that there's some 'pro's' out there who do this kind of thing, even making mods, but for us who aren't. The other issue I'd like to bring up, is characters just standing there. doing nothing when there are things that must be done. 'Idling' is a problem and no way to fix it. I even did one chore at a time and still the same thing persists. And what I said before on the creation level of the characters? How I liked it? That still remains. But half the time, you get the 'stupids' of the lot, and it makes getting ones who are smarter to know what they're doing, seriously difficult to obtain later on.
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