Anyone Playing Palworld? Thinking About Getting It After This Video
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I've played it the last few days. It has sucked me in. It's like they took every complaint about Pokemon from the last decade and said "how about we do not that."
If the story about the bucket of USBs is true, these are the most indie devs of all time.
Details?
They didn't know how to conduct version saves or backups, of version management of any kind, so at the end of every day of work they'd save the entire game on a new USB, write the date down and add it to the pile.
Supposedly they went through hundreds.
I just can't fathom not having a NAS in RAID 1 for backups, it's just insane and common knowledge? Not even using a cloud service at all? Anything would be cheaper and safer than using flash drives.
Yeah, like I said. The indiest of indies.
I thought that was weird too, and assumed they either embellished or lost in translation. I'm assuming it's the project files minus content that isn't already backed up elsewhere. Just in case so they can always go back to a previous working version if they fucked things up bigly and no cloud for security and privacy reasons?
You can't churn out a game like this if you're so stupid that you're backing up the same in game assets nightly. I refuse to believe it.
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Palworld is remarkably fun. Its like Ark but with Pokémon instead of dinos, and significantly more fun than it.
Do whatever you want, man. I'm not gonna get it because it looks retarded and I think Pokemon are stupid.
I like a bunch of other retarded shit, but not this particular flavor of stupid.
That being said, I might still check it out after the hype is gone, or when it gets fully released (if the game sticks around and endures the test of time).
I'm kinda careful with early access these days, so I'm not gonna jump on the newest hot thing. Besides, this type of Pied Piper of Hamelin effect, when a hyped game comes out and everyone flocks to it rubs me off wrong.
That's pretty much my feelings about it, though I've always been that way so I rarely play new games to begin with. I'm very happy for the developers but I've got like a reverse FOMO where everyone simultaneously praising a thing makes me less interested. It can certainly go on my backlog of hundreds of games to try someday.
Interesting that so many of us here seem to be likeminded about this. Instant popularity makes me socially defiant. Not sure why.
It should make you suspicious when something pops up out of nowhere and becomes instantly popular. Jordan Peterson for instance.
This imo is not one of those times.
I share your sentiments exactly that's why I figure I ask kia2, real gamers that I can relate to, like minded and just as handsome as they are skilled at video games with limited time to game on account of being captains of their industry and too busy banging hot chicks to sit around with nothing to do but game all day.
Sometimes it works out, Rimworld, Vamp Survivor and Factorio, I make an exception for that rule if the game is made by indie nobodies.
I was just talking with the wife about this game, in between rounds of animalistic sex and international conference calls. We're going to try to make time for Pokemon Slave Plantation Simulator in between all the product rollouts and orgies.
This fine gentleman's presentation is what got our attention.
Okay say no more, this game is get. Of course I can't play too much tonight, gotta wake up around 3am (10am Mozambique) to yell at my diamond guy in Portuguese.
What I wouldn't give to put him in a pokeball...
I'm tempted. from what I hear, even though a lot of it looks jank, the core gameplay loop is solid, it's less buggy than a lot of things that get shit out by AAA these days, and there are a lot of interesting mechanics, that are paced excellently to pop up just as you are wishing for them.
It seems to be an all too common story that people picked up the funny pokemon with guns game to laugh at how terrible it was, only to emerge after an 18hour binge of what has turned out to be a genuinely enjoyable experience.
Sailed the seas to test the waters so to speak. For a self-professed amateur operation I was honestly impressed at how not-dogshit the performance was.
UI is responsive, worldgen and loading times are tight, no obvious weird FPS drops or stutters. That's better than most full releases even.
The core gameplay is alright, it obviously borrowed mechanics heavily and almost unedited from other games and just mashed them together. I would not say the pacing is perfect beyond the first few hours though. It started to get pretty patchy and heavily XP dependent, to the point it's not even worth bothering making half the new stuff or going out of your way to train new pals, it's quicker instead to just grind XP even harder to skip straight to the final tier versions.
This is my overall assessment as well, from a similar demo-route.
It definitely has potential and room to grow. Even more-so if the devs incorporate an Unreal toolkit with reliable modding support and get Steam workshop going.
Granted, I'd prefer seeing them flesh out and polish the game themselves, but I realistically don't hold such expectations from most modern devs, regardless of the resources available or presumed intent.
Only had time to mess around with it briefly, and the controls are a little finicky to me but what's not to like about beating the snot out of a sheep pokemon, shoving him into a magic ball and then making him build beds for you made out of his own wool?
The people saying "jank" are mostly bitter trans freaks who are jealous they weren't able to make this game. There are issues with pals in your base having trouble pathing around and deciding what job to do but it's an Early Access game so you can reasonably assume those are problems that will get fixed.
Yeah, the AI can definitely use a little optimization, and players could use some more options with controlling and managing worker tasks, priorities, and operations.
The controls and UI could also use a little bit of work. Hardcoded keybinds are a massive pet peeve of mine.
I saw pictures of factorio like assembly line where a pokemon, or whatever they're called in this game, firing the furnace and other creatures making sub machine guns. I need my factorio fix and if I also get to headshot pokemons with a bow and arrow in the process I'm fucking game.
It's closer to "Pokemon with crafting" than "Factorio with animal slaves".
What's the summary of the gameplay loop? I haven't played Ark so "Like Ark with Pokemon" doesn't mean anything.
Do damage to monsters -> capture monsters -> use monsters to gather resources and build up a base -> research technology -> level up monsters and use them to fight and capture stronger monsters.
Indeed. Conan Exiles had a bit of this too, only with people instead of dinosaurs.
Technically, humans are capturable in Palworld too. There's just not much benefit to it currently.
Sell them to White people who come from the sea, in a few hundred years it'll be worth something to your offspring.
Emergency food?
Well... it does still have the 'Body Type' bullshit in the character creator. Modders can change that though
I haven't payed it, but I do have a list of articles and Twitter takes that use it to push for a separate idea. AI is evil? Palword. Nintendo should go 3rd party? Palworld. Counter Strike/ Harry Potter/ others are not that popular? Palworld. Women buy games? Wait, this is proof that all lefty agenda is true and should be followed.
No lie, the pushback and hate by the usual worst kind, couple with the fact that they made it with a budget of 10k and the dev saying he just want to make game that people would like is what got this game on my radar.
It's exactly what you imagined a Pokemon MMO would be 10-15 years ago, except it also has base building and guns. It's a solid game and shockingly complete for an Early Access survival crafting title.
-makers of a labor camp simulator.
The post links to twitter reply of a guy's own accounting of him being perma banned on the forum for complaining bodytype 1/2.
My reaction? Depends on his post. If he was being a shitcock and was banned then fair, if he was just have a conversation and was shut down then no that's fucked up. But one guy replying to a tweet saying he was banned =/= trend.
I just watched a video during lunch about people mostly anti-ai and rabid pokemon fanboys making just the worst arguments about this game and telling people to boycott it. I'm sure the devs got a hair-trigger on their ban hammers right now.
I know I am. I just bough it after playing a lot for "free". Game's good and fun in my eyes and it was 14 dolars for me so... why not?
Yeah I tried it on gamepass and wanted to play on a server. It's pretty fun, like Valheim or ARK with Pokemon.
It's fun. The gameplay is like Ark, but with the frustrations greatly reduced.
I've been having a lot of fun with it. And it seems to be pissing off all the right people
I honestly suggest a modded version of Valheim over this, but thats cause from what little I have seen it reminds me of Valheim and I really like their systems. I'm not big on pet stuff, I liked Pokemon because of its turn based RPG styles and so this doesn't appeal to me at all really.
No plans to try this for me, maybe some day when I've gotten through everything else that interests me and a friend wants to play it.
I legitimately kind of hate Valheim. The sailing and building is great, but the overall gameplay design just didn't suit my fancy, even while modded.
Thats fair, I genuinely like the game and modded I think it really bumps up the QoL and enemy/armor/building variety which were my only small complaints before.
These type of games for me are a big hit or miss, I'm not even looking at Palworld as an option, and games like Rust just don't appeal to me at all, despite being similar. Valheim is one of the few that works for me to play in this kind of genre.
Yeah, it's a strange kind of genre that seems to bring out certain preferences for flavors and tastes in different people.
Rust is one that never appealed to me just due to the FacePunch and Gmod community. Palworld typically isn't something I'd normally find appealing, but I do recognize areas where they've pushed some game mechanics in a direction I've wanted to see for a few years.
I'm thinking of picking it up. Looks like it scratches a lot of itches. Even if it's 10 hours of fun, that's more than a lot of games provide for twice the money.
I lost interest when I saw the character creator had "body type 1 and 2" instead of male or female. It's not that I was hugely interested to begin with, but I've developed zero tolerance for that sort of bullshit.
More Asmongold videos? Sigh.
I haven't played. It looks like the biggest ripoff collage yet.
It's nothing too amazing, but it definitely has the potential for fun. I just wish I had friends to try this stuff online with
I never got into Pokemon so I don't care about how the game is similar to that but apparently not a shit game, according to Pokemoners(?). I did notice that it is yet another survival game. I've never been into those. Then, it is also Early Access. That said, I'm still considering this game in part because it's only $27.