A 1970 Corvette

On 1/8/2025 at 3:46 PM, Silent said:

Yeah @A 1970 Corvette can you make a thread or something on exactly what you're doing in this game for 1k hours? Maybe some insight into a what a typical run is like for you or some tips to get the most out of the game, if that makes sense? I would be interested as the furthest I got was beating it and experimenting with a few fungal shifts. I think the last time I played in 2022 I found the chain gun and left the save for the next time I played it, it's probably been wiped by an update by now. 

I will preface some percentage of it is just me doing autopilot runs that are really basic, but there's a lot of fun challenge runs (and a few less-than-fun challenges admittedly) that have eaten up a lot of sessions. Stuff like playing without picking up gold, pacifist runs, no hits, all boss kills (this got more complicated due to epilogue 2 though) and stuff like that. A lot of these are just the normal path but with a limitation on them so they can be quick or take a lot of time. A good deal are also doing some mods like Apotheosis which has a ton of extra things and is good for someone like me who's done a ton of the base game and wanted some new stuff.

I've done a lot of speedrunning sessions too, I really think this game is fun for casual speedrunning (my PB is only like 4:17 so I'm definitely not putting any records up ever) once you have a good level of mastery over the base game experience since speedrunning drastically changes how you approach things and what is good and what sucks while also taxing your ability to navigate dangerous areas and enemies with low resources.

There are a few "quests" that legitimately take like 10+ hours of gameplay for the first time you do them which are mainly the Sun quests and peaceful end/33 orbs or if you're really a psycho trying to get the amulet of yendor (tried to do this and fucked it up and probably won't try again for a while). These are definitely ones that you probably wouldn't really ever complete without a guide honestly, I played through with the community guides from the wiki. Without a guide you'll literally never understand how to place the star child or something fucking stupid will happen like the essence eaters will yeet your waterstone into the stratosphere and it'll despawn or something, or you'll pick up slime blood while getting perks and doom your run.

I think a good way to get the most out of the game is picking up a few tricks to kill important bosses "early." There are surprisingly simple cheese strats that let you kill the bridge boss for chances at incredibly high tier wands, for instance, and the Alchemist boss is similarly cheesable. Both of those bosses drop insane resources that can let you just do whatever you want basically. For a while when I was getting consistent at winning I would try my best to put together a wand capable of reaching and killing the alchemist boss by the Snowy Depths and that helped me understand when I could push certain bosses early and when I needed more resources to make it work. There's a lot so I can't really list them all, but the Bridge Boss/Squidward/Connoisseur of Wands is extremely weak to plasma due to duplicating their beams and often killing himself (make sure to have a way to get out of the way or ambrosia), and the Alchemist boss is weak to just a fuckhuge explosion if you can cram them all in a wand and cast it without killing yourself too.

I honestly don't really recommend doing something like a 33 orb or sun quest run. Really long runs in noita tend to really hinge on you trying to find an extremely specific combo of rare spells and there's a very huge parallel world grind for that. I spent legit like six hours trying to find a summon wall/platform spell once it fucking sucked ass. You'll also need to plan them out way in advance because if you do something like pick up repulsion field and projectile slower it makes something random as fuck not work like certain world travel wands. Or if you pick up exploding corpses then eating poly mages for immunity becomes almost impossible. Stuff like that.

If you want to get a bit more out of it after the main path I would just look into killing all the bosses (not necessarily in the same run but some wand combos can kill a lot of them). You might want to just look into where they are, or into more detailed guides depending on how much you want to discover on your own. Then another thing would just be reaching a parallel world since it requires a few things like infinite digging (likely from killing the alchemist boss) and a way to not die to cursed rock. Then further than that is the moon quests which mainly are just collecting some specific things from off the main path and visiting remote and dangerous areas of the main world like hell and heaven. The sky temple quests are pretty fun too and I fucking love the OST for the Henkeva Temple so much.

After that gathering the main worlds' 11 orbs is a run that runs you through a lot of different areas and is kind of at the limit where it starts becoming a pretty long run (this one also probably would need you to look up an orb map though, there are ways to locate them entirely in-game but it's finicky creating guiding powder). If somehow you wanted more after that, then the crazy long ones I've brought up above might be more doable but yeah.

Basically I'd just recommend giving a little look into the wiki and learning boss locations (and strats to fight them if you're down to learn it that way), and when you have a strong main path run (good damage, a way to move around quickly like spammy teleport bolts, and a way to dig through anything like black holes; these are the three things you basically always are going to want to find if you plan on going off of the main path) you can consider going up and taking a swing at some of the bosses or exploring the off-path areas like fungal caverns or frozen vault or the pyramid. You can also look at the wiki's achievement pillars list since that has a bunch of challenges like boss kills, special challenge runs, etc. that if you complete show up on your world's pillars for every run afterwards. The pillars are kind of what got me into doing the side stuff honestly

If doing that vanilla sounds like a lot of work mods that make things smoother like the health pack drop and anvil of destiny and starting perk and stuff aren't bad (I used them a lot at the start) but I can maintain that barring some fucking insane RNG like a greater chest dropping monster powder in the first level pretty much every run is at least winnable, if not capable of going to the crazy endgame quests. Doing stuff in Noita is kind of all about being very methodical at the start and taking all the little benefits the game's early areas give you and being good at evaluating the risks you're taking and knowing when to cut and run.

Sadly a lot of stuff really does need a bit of meta-knowledge to even engage with. The wiki is great for that but I also picked up a lot of knowledge from watching speedrunners and streamers doing challenge runs since they might just pull some random combo out that you've never seen before while doing something unrelated and you can tuck that away until you need it in some run where it seems like you've not got anything good at all

My switch's controllers barely lock into place as is much to my distress. But I did wonder how sturdy the new design would be in comparison

Behold, 2024 in retrospect! I think as usual I probably could have watched more but hey only so much can catch your eye at once. If you don't care about anything else at least listen to the ED of the year cuz I really really like it.

And some meandering commentary to explain my category choices:

Now I need to work on the 2024 games in retrospect oof

You know that thing when you joke about doing something over and over and it stops being a joke after a while? I've been doing that with getting a steam deck so I'll probably hold off on the switch 2 until it's well into its release life.

Plus when you do that with Nintendo consoles, you tend to get the chance to get cool variants with unique designs so win-win for me

6 hours ago, Moby said:

I have heard that tis common for the regional bacteria on food and water to do that to foreigners. Happens if you travel between countries or states.

 

Happened to me when I traveled 3 states north and was like an entire day of violent toilet visits.

Given that what I had was basically the same as other people for the entire first night I was there, it's kind of the only explanation I can think of. I just hope if I ever go eventing in Japan again my body remembers

The trip was fun. Met with someone I hadn't ever met IRL but have known for years and they were awesome. Saved my ass right out of the airport. They had a small eventer group that we linked up with and shared a hotel with right next to the venue. That group's awesome too.

Got really fucking sick on hasunosora 3rd live day 1 of the live and couldn't make it (don't even know what it was tbh, just my stomach violently emptied itself and I couldn't stand). Made the second day just fine though, and as a bonus another event the next day (avoid note mygo x togetoge) opened up when an eventer had two spare tickets. Pretty different type of show (as far as cute girls playing music can go at least) but also really awesome. I felt terrible that I didn't know all the songs but holy shit this one MyGo song blew me away live, it was so good.

After that we spent the remaining day and a half visiting important love live locations from the various series. We actually visited something from every single love live one except Sunshine but that's due to Sunshine's location being weird. I snapped a bunch of pictures that a normal person would be like "hmmm yes very scenic" and I'm like "hehe the stairs nico tripped on when racing honoka"

Crazy good experience, glad I went. It was basically the only vacation trip I ever took where I was actually just left in the lurch when I was coming back home because normally I'm counting down the hours but I was just enjoying every single moment so much that it just ended and I was sitting in an airport so quickly

8 hours ago, hugthebed2 said:

I'm well aware I could find spoilers when looking at fanart (doesn't really happen)

this is why I hate myself for starting on blue archive global and I won't play any weeby mobage on a global version ever again

I hate all the big reveals and stuff being spoiled by fanart and I'm not going to just stop looking at fanart because it's part of the fun. Even if blue archive is leagues ahead other ones I've seen like FGO in terms of trying to catch up with the original servers it's still not there

9 hours ago, Huff said:

I’m going to put mine off for a couple weeks because of boat hellschedule and wanting to finish a game or two. 

I'm in the same boat of needing time though I don't even know if I played that much this year. (Also same with the anime post, I promised not to forget even if nobody cares!!)

16 hours ago, Razputin said:

 

EDH has to be the most thoroughly ruined format of all of them. Like ok Modern is now just MH block with hard rotation and Legacy has to deal with the random insanely busted commander card that was clearly not balanced for 1v1, but you're still playing the same game. Comparatively, the entire spirit of EDH is just gone, It's just straight up constructed net decking now, you're no longer hardcasting derpy 6drops, you're winning on turn 4. There's hundreds of legendaries specifically designed to be your commander so the creativity of it is gone, and you either pick the 4 color legend with 3 paragraphs of value generating text, or you pick something that is so strictly inferior you lose the game the moment commanders are revealed.

 

Also I'm not sure if that means anything to anyone here, but they recently actually unbanned Splinter Twin in Modern. And it doesn't matter, because the new cards are so busted that twin is just passé in comparison

Yeah EDH really became a casualty of the power creep and (ironically? at this point it's expected but perhaps ten years ago it'd be surprising) direct focus that it got from WotC. It'd be one thing if it stayed as a place for jank WHILE the other constructed formats were imploding but it got the same treatment if not worse. It also doesn't help that the format is handwaved by all this rule 0 shit but then they also still have a not-run-by-wotc-but-who-the-fuck-is-kidding-themselves banlist that is curated in an extremely confusing manner (hey let's ban these fast mana rocks but not sol ring even though it's the exact same thing tehee iconic card!!)

I remember hearing people when I first started playing (around the second commander deck products I believe) say that creating cards directly for commander was terrible and ruined the format. I was new enough that I didn't really get it but now that I see every mythic commander that is its own engine and the 30 staples you'd put in before you even start adding other cards I see they were unironically right even if back then the 1 set of commander decks a year seemed harmless enough. Back then there were commanders that telegraphed a pretty specific type of deck (oh gee I wonder what this doran the siege tower deck's gonna play like!!) but they weren't everywhere like they are now and you still had a lot of slots that you needed a little bit of jank or creativity to fill.

Honestly the deckbuilding and prowling the card databases for something weird that worked for your idea was half the fun of EDH which is probably why I just stick to cube now. At least a cube you can stuff with weird cards that you like and control the powerlevel pretty well and still have that variance that the spirit of EDH's 100 card singleton decks tried to instate (before wotc realized they can print the same effect in every set to the point where you can have eight copies of basically the same card in your singleton deck)

And yeah the twin ban was seen by a lot of enfranchised players as this crazy gesture "wow twin is back!!" and I'm wondering if they saw things like amulet killing people on t2 when they think twin is going to do anything

18 minutes ago, Silent said:

Hope you have a good time, I'm sure it'll be okay. You are making the extremely wise decision of not going in the middle of the summer so it can't be as bad as my trip there

I will say that was kind of the first thing I thought of when planning it. "Oh thank god I won't have to deal with japan's summer"

2 hours ago, Razputin said:

Happy new year ol' subspuffers! I hope 2025 will be great for you all

I spent the last three weeks of 2024 sick as a dog so 2025 is at least looking up on that front!

I'm also going on a trip to Japan in a few days and I'm absolutely fucking terrified oh god why did I decide to do this I just want to crawl into my bed and miss my flight and just pretend I never organized it

I keep up with news just to watch the burning dumpster, but basically the only MtG I ever play is my friends' old cube that hasn't been updated in years and draft simulations on Forge. Basically the only one in our group who cares anymore is just an EDH whale and even he pretty much just goes to a game store and doesn't try to bring us along anymore. It's just so crazy that everything that captured my interest back in 2013-2014 was pretty much completely thrown out even if the game is still all theoretically there. 

It is literally irreversible at this point, you'd have to create an entirely new format if you wanted to try and recapture the bygone era of the game when everything wasn't power crept to shit. I still remember people talking about how you'd need 20 or so bans to "fix" modern years ago and now it's just like not even worth discussing, and even formats dedicated to being full of old broken stuff get rotated by new cards too.

They've been saying more or less directly to the players that had concerns about the power creep that the game isn't for them anymore. At least those players can always proxy block constructed or cubes from sets where everything didn't generate some kind of massive value swing for just existing in your deck

1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

>Relative has a book with pictures of products that were screwed up (bootlegs, spelling errors, mispackaging, and the like)

>One has a caption like "well win you win a cheap stuffed animal at the fair you can't expect them to get little details like having the eyes facing the right way"

>It's an accurate Derpy doll.

Silly mistake by someone not initiated with the series, or clever reference to the initial mistake/animator joke? You decide!!

Well if the photo was dated then we'd probably know definitively since she became "real" pretty quick

Yeah I just ran through the entire comics series since it had been so long. So crazy to think that it's happened. I mean obviously I'm caught up in the moment but I really liked it

So we're getting a TF3 announcement soon right? 

I've been playing the Stalker games recently, just finished Clear Sky and I did Shadow of Chernobyl a couple of months ago. Honestly I don't really have that much to say about them that isn't already said but I enjoy that blend between the atmosphere of the zone and the way the shooting/combat mechanics dictate this very specific pace of combat. I also like how both kind of throw away the strongest part of the game at the end for this big action set piece but the game is literally not designed to do them well so they fall flat on their face each time. (I actually did like Limansk in Clear Sky but I was heavily overprepared for it)

Clear Sky is really interesting in the sense that it's low effort and high effort at the same time? Like it uses pretty much the same overworld as the previous game and has a weaker story overall (honestly basically a retread of the first game though I think parts are cool) but adds in this persistent faction territory system that actually does push and pull without the player which I really like in theory since it avoids a little bit of a common RPG issue where literally nothing goes on unless the player is around to do it or watch it happen. Obviously there are some issues like how the AI is as sophisticated as a single-celled organism and the game can easily bug out and basically break the faction wars in this weird non-deterministic way that means it could never fix itself or randomly fix itself ten hours later in real time (this is my fault for playing without mod fixes, but even those I've heard are not 100% successful).

People seem to really enjoy the next game in the series so I'm looking forward to that whenever I get to playing it. Overall this series is kind of a "damn I wish I had played this earlier!" series for me since it hits a lot of notes I enjoy and I can look past the jank pretty easily. And if I'm lucky, I'll finish the next game in time for Stalker 2 to go on some steam sale for the first time :DDD

I had a dream my international flight crashed and the survivors were taken for ransom by terrorists. Luckily it ended before we got to the ransom note readings

Why yes I might be a little nervous about flying on my own overseas for a trip how could you tell

1 hour ago, hugthebed2 said:

Turk

I too like that High on Fire song

6 minutes ago, Idiot Cube said:

You probably shouldn't have brought up the "That Demoman is a NEGGA-*wheeze*" one.

I actually remember the example I used was "You are all weak! You are all MEDIC!"

Maybe his mom was a medic main

I had a dream where I explained what "pootis spencer" was to some clueless kid. I also gave him some sick TF2 voice line meta hints like how you can cut off certain voice lines with other ones to make the mercs say something silly.

I think this was at a church or something. His mother didn't like me was the only other part I can remember.

3 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

I hold in my hands a copy of the first volume of the Nyaruko Light Novel series, imported from Japan.

 

I have officially entered the "if no one is going to bring it over, then fuck it I'll just learn Japanese and read it myself" period of weebdom.

I've kinda reached the point where I'd rather have the original Japanese for stuff like manga just because I can hack it out just fine, but I probably need to actually read a light novel through in japanese before I'll start considering that.

That being said there aren't really that many LN series that I like to begin with so it might be tough to start

Okay well knowing Retsuko, Fenneko (best girl), Mirri and high school inari Tamamo-chan (hey, wait, isn't she just a normal person?) is perfectly acceptable so I'll own up to those.

I could name like 12. I kinda don't like that I know even that many tbh

I'll have to try and find some time to comment on others but I spent too much time writing so I'll need a break.

1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

That Polish spinning toilet homosex song

Ah yes, that one

(doesn't get it at all)

Fuck man, I've only played one of those games and it was BotW. I agree that the sequel made things a lot more gamey and it kinda undermined things for me. I think I prefer the simplicity of BotW even if it was kinda threadbare once you saw a certain amount of it.

I'll definitely put together my own list for this but it's going to require a bit of reflection that I never bother doing normally so I'm definitely going to make picks, realize an hour later I forgot something, then reorganize it all over and over. Honestly it feels kinda weird to me organizing "real" games that actually have a crafted experience alongside things like multiplayer-only games where it's entirely dependent on outside people even though they're equally valid as games (especially since for me, multiplayer games drastically eclipse the amount of playtime that singleplayer games have all combined)