I’m doing my best to get to the islands, but going through a single-use anchor each island is getting pretty expensive.
It’s been what, a day and a half since I posted? I’m over 13 hours already. I kept redesigning my original raft, but it was super expensive to tear down and rebuild. So I created a new world in creative mode and came up with a plan I’m happy with. Then I restarted a proper game. Getting enough food and water on the first day was still a mighty struggle; actually took me three tries during this restart. But now I’m up and running, and have about half of my intended design built so far.
My raft design is incredibly stupid. I think it’s taller than it is wide. It’s like a little mini skyscraper, and then to make it more absurd I put a sail on the roof. If this weren’t a video game it would immediately capsize.
interesting thing i learned is I already own the newest leader pack for civ 6 and I started a new game as lincoln but I’m already annoyed by it as the main defining feature is the " emancipation proclamation" doctrine
Where when you get to the industrial age and build the industry zone and buildings you get a free military unit that has none of the usual side effects but your plantations give you a -2 loyalty… if you’re in a rain forest-based map that could be a nightmare
But I don’t know yet if that dink to the loyalty is there from the start or is my tea based empire going to go down in the flames of anarchy
Raft is still on sale until noon Eastern, and according to augmented steam this 33% sale matches the best ever sale from 2020. If you played Subnautica and enjoyed building bases in that game, I highly recommend you give Raft a try. It scratches that same base-building itch.
I’ve been having trouble with my island scrambles because again, those stupid anchors are so expensive. I have hundreds of wood, plastic and rope, but then only a few dozen metal scraps and a couple dozen stone. Anchors cost four stone each, and the average return for me includes maybe one or two stone per island. Plus I need stone for other things than just anchors.
To save on stone I’ve been driving my raft directly into islands with the sail, relying on the wind to keep pushing the raft into the island instead of floating away. Kind of unnerving.
It frustrates me how difficult they make it to save scum these survival games. It’s especially irritating in raft compared to subnautica because death comes for you so much more often in raft. Deadly animals on islands, plus of course the omnipresent shark as soon as you touch the water. Just like subnautica, you have to make a copy of the save folder in explorer. Kind of a pain.
Eh, kill the shark. Time it right and you won’t take any damage,and you can collect rocks and ore and scrap from around the island for a few minutes before it respawns.
Previous knowledge is from my Raft playthroughs with my siblings and sometimes solo.
My family has taken to trying a lot of (usually) co-op games to hang out while we live across the country (ok, Iowa and Colorado). So we’re playing a lot of different things until we find something we get addicted to. Our current fun is Satisfactory, essentially a simplified Factorio in first person, with some Back for Blood mixed in to scratch the zombie killing itch. Outside of that, Sniper Elite 5 (killing Nazis at 400m) and Gran Turismo 7 take up the bulk of my gaming time. Oh, and WoW just dropped that new expansion and wait it’s Monday already? Can’t be, I haven’t gone to bed…
I just wrapped up Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order. I purchased it for less than $10 on Steam and it was well worth it. It’s a Dark Souls type game, though not so brutally difficult, and was quite enjoyable.
I liked that game quite a bit, though it is a rare game that actually felt almost over-long to me. It was fine and nice to see a full single-player Star Wars game.
Good tip, thanks! I did once already, largely by accident, and even mounted his head on a trophy board. It hadn’t occurred to me to try and do it intentionally, though I like to think it would have eventually.
EDIT: And agreed that Jedi Fallen Order is pretty fun. I didn’t finish it but I also haven’t uninstalled it yet. Pretty sure I got it for that same $10 sale and it felt worth it.
I’m in the middle of Call of Duty WWII. The graphics are amazing, the gameplay quite frenetic but fun. Killing nazis is always fun. Got through Steam winter sale for $20. Well worth it.
My daughters and I tried to play The Evil Dead game that was free from Epic. We all thought it was really dull. It was missing the crazy frenetic comedy of the movies. It wasn’t groovy, baby.
I put few hundred hours into that game. It’s really satisfying blasting Nazis. But as a multiplayer game, it was kinda meh. Invading others’ games was pretty fun. But it’s one of the few times I’m gonna say playing against randos is more fun than your friends.
Does anyone use the Big Picture feature on Steam? It’s a controller-compatible launcher for Steam intended to be run on your television like a console. (I assume it’s the same interface as the steam deck.) Click the little icon in the top right of the regular steam launcher to launch it, then best I can figure you have to Alt+F4 to close it.
Big Picture has the “killer feature” of enabling controller support in games that don’t support it natively. Like Raft, for example. It works flawlessly; I have gotten to where I control every action with the controller. Even driving the mouse pointer, including drag and drop.
My problem is I hate some of the button mappings and would really like to customize them. Anyone here ever used Big Picture?
Kind of need answer fast before the existing controls get locked into muscle memory. The one that bothers me the most is the two shoulder buttons: One maps to the “X” key on the keyboard, which picks up placeable items. The other maps to the “R” key, which rotates objects. The stupid Big Picture defaults to mapping R=Left, X=Right. What kind of monster would do that? R=Right isn’t even the only reason to switch; X rhymes with Left. I mean, come on! There are a few other tweaks I’d like to make but those are just personal preference; not an “R=Left” crime against humanity.
I picked up Far Cry 3,4 and 5, and Fallout 4 during the recent Steam sale. I expect that will keep me busy for quite some time. So far, I’ve rather enjoyed Fallout 4 despite dying a lot. Far Cry 5 looks like it’s going to be a hoot.
The Far Cry games are not amazing, but they are definitely high-quality products. I’d suggest you just play them in numerical order. Far Cry 3 is near-universally considered the best one in the series, mostly because it established and solidified the formula for all of the subsequent titles. But it doesn’t really matter what order you play them in, they are each self-contained stories.
Yeah, the best reason to play them in order is because each adds features and you won’t be grumbling about your lack of a gyrocopter in FC3. There’s a few minor callbacks to previous games but strictly on the Easter Egg “Heh…” level.
Yes, I use Big Picture; you can set up custom controls, even on a per-game basis (I haven’t done it in a long while though). Years ago I was playing Rimworld with a controller via Big Picture Mode. You have to go to the game in your library, then go to Manage Game, and the Controller Configuration options are in there.
Also, to exit Big Picture, you don’t have to Alt-F4, if you go to the power button (upper right of the main menu) you can exit Big Picture (or shut down steam or your computer).
I wish Big Picture allowed mouse-and-keyboard use. I’ve mocked together a way to use my new TV as an extra monitor, but it’s pretty buggy, and I can’t make the TV’s speakers work without cutting in and out. Big Picture seems like it’d make it much easier, except I’m super unfamiliar with using a controller.
This, however, has sucked up a crazy amount of my time since I’ve discovered it. I keep restarting as I figure out how to make factories work better and better; comparing my current all-right-angles factory to my previous bowls of conveyor-belt noodles is pretty astonishing. I’m not even sure I’d say it’s that much simplified over Factorio, although the lack of base-attacking aliens makes it a lot more peaceful. Adding the third dimension definitely gives some interesting elements to factory construction. Folks who like Oxygen Not Included might find this right in their wheelhouse.
Thank you so much, that helped me find it, I’m all squared away now. One of the buttons I moved may already be too ingrained, so I might have to move it back, but otherwise I’m all set.
I ended up remapping the shoulder buttons to swim up/down, just like subnautica, so I’m super pumped about that. I didn’t even know that swim down was a command in Raft, and also I hated that swim up was the jump button (A), forcing me to let go of the right stick to swim up. I kept A as jump but then also mapped A to the left shoulder button. So much better!
I even managed to map “Repair” (middle mouse button) to clicking in the right stick, so now I think I can do everything on the controller, woohoo! Thanks again.