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[–] 2 points 8 months ago

I picked Subnautica back up because I wanted to try a randomizer mod. Thought it might add a fun twist to the game, but even though it made the start a little bit more difficult it really just made everything more tedious because I had to swim to shallow water to get early game materials. Basically all that's randomized is my spawn location and the blueprint fragments are semi-randomized.

I only made progress after restarting twice because the first time my lifepod spawned way too far towards the edge and I was eaten by a ghost leviathan as soon as I left the lifepod. The second start I had a good spawn but I had randomize recipes on and did you know there are like a million different seeds in the game? That's not really the experience I was looking for lol.

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    [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This game is so unbelievably good it's such a disservice people keep attributing these fake screenshots to it. It's actually incredible how relevant its themes still are.

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    The dead game I'm obsessed with: Pirates CSG in c/tabletop@beehaw.org
    [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's heavily encouraged! 3D printed ships are pretty popular, and it's not too hard to make your own. Ben, the current custodian has a pretty fleshed out series of custom ships that most of the community accepts as "officially unofficial" so the community is very open to proxies, homebrews, and custom stuff.

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    The dead game I'm obsessed with: Pirates CSG (beehaw.org)
     

    This game has me in an absolute choke-hold right now. It's just so charming. It went out of production in like '08 and I collected it for most of the short time it was in production, and for a while after as it was still selling at bargain bin prices (you can still see the stickers on some of the sealed product that's still out there).

    After losing my collection a few years ago, I recently reached out to the game's small but active community to see if any of them had stumbled upon it and although I haven't tracked it down yet, I have managed to get re-hooked on the game and my new collection is rapidly approaching the old one in size, although the availability of sets is much smaller now I'm still having so much fun collecting, building, and playing the game.

    If you aren't familiar it's a miniatures game and the ships come in little playing card sized sheets of plastic. You punch the ships out and build them and you can build and customize your fleet with special crew members and such. They have little islands and gold pieces that you sail between to see who can get the most gold while you fight it out with your opponents' ships.

    I'm not really selling it well (who comes here anyways?) but there are several pretty well made videos on YouTube that are worth checking out.

    This how to play video is incredibly good

    This absurdly long interview with one of the game's creators Mike Mulvihill is very interesting.

    A well produced "battle report" if you're curious about how it's played

    The game is currently maintained by the legendary Ben, who you can find at his website

    It's really fun, you should check it out! Has anyone here heard of it? Played it? Love it or hate it?

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