Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Recent Questions - Arqade

Recent Questions - Arqade


Anyone recognise this (probably text adventure) game?

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 04:21 AM PDT

Can anyone recognise this game? I might be misremembering but when I saw this screenshot I remembered an old (probably text) adventure game or RPG that was started out in a space station. I ran the text through google translate and it says "it looks like you're away" or "I want to be away". This was the first screen in the game and it was in English when I played it. I can't remember any other details though.

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Subnautica Below Zero not responding when playing on PC with Xbox Series controller

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 03:58 AM PDT

Usually I am able to play games on my PC using my Xbox Series controller via Bluetooth. But with this game, it does not seem to work, except when switching from the keyboard/mouse to the controller, it resets the view; or in menus, focuses on the current item, but then none of the buttons/joysticks.

I tried looking for a setting but could not find any. The weird part is for instance if I have the controller connected but using the keyboard, the interactive buttons in-game shows the A button instead of Left-click.

The controller works well as I can navigate the "Xbox Gamebar" after pressing the Xbox button or Ctrl-G.

Any advice or setting that might help?

If Charlotte of "Samurai Shodown" comes to "Heroes of Might and Magic" as a soldier, how to name it (unupgraded & upgraded)?

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 04:17 AM PDT

I'm directing a project, "Math of War 1", a spiritual successor to "Heroes of Might and Magic" (a turn-based 4X game).

Inspired by "Samurai Spirits (aka Samurai Shodown)" (a fighting game by SNK), I'm planning to use Charlotte (a female character) to replace Landsknecht/Swordmaster, but my team have difficulty to give the new T4 soldier two proper names (for respective the unupgraded form and the upgraded form).

FYI:

Charlotte: https://snk.fandom.com/wiki/Charlotte

https://wiki.gbl.gg/w/Samurai_Shodown/Charlotte

Landsknecht: https://mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Landsknecht

Swordmaster: https://mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Sword_master_(H7)

Why am I desynced in Singleplayer?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 09:04 PM PDT

I was messing around in Education edition the other day, and summoned a few Ender Dragons with /summon while in survival mode.

One Ender Dragon got stuck in the bedrock layer, and I went to check it out. Immediately after going near the dragon, my whole game started acting up. I can't pick up items, use fireworks, eat, place blocks, take damage, hit mobs, or travel outside of the chunks that I already loaded. If I try to throw an item, it seems to disappear into nothingness and doesn't actually fall onto the ground. This includes throwing splash potions using right click. Mobs seem to not notice that I'm around, and I can't push entities either.

I can still mine blocks, but the block breaking animation won't show and the block will simply disappear without dropping anything. I can get into elytra mode and sprint around, but that's practically all.

To make this more infuriating, my commands and chat won't register and I'm stuck in a hole at bedrock level.

What is going on?

Steam won't launch in Windows 10 dual boot with Ubuntu 20.04

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 07:53 PM PDT

I have a laptop with dual boot (Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04). It has been about 2 months that I have been using dual boot. Before I installed Ubuntu 20.04, my Windows 10 had Steam installed. Then I installed Ubuntu 20.04 which works well so far. But on my Windows 10, Steam won't open. Then I disabled the fast startup in Windows 10. Now I can open Steam. But everytime I try to play a game from my library, the game won't launch.

I already tried to re-install the game, but it doesn't work. Then I tried to re-install Steam, and it does not work. Now Steam won't open after I tried to install a game from my libraries. What can I do to fix this?

How do I make a "PocketPal" in Minecraft as a pet?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 05:29 PM PDT

it's StickyChannel92 for another question.

How can I make a custom pet in a custom shape that follows me around? I want to be creative with not only with armor stands, but programming them to do certain things. I want something like this: (on the left next to me)

Starbot

Can I achieve this sort of goal without using any plugins? All I know is that this is a Vanilla Minecraft server, and they make these sort of "PocketPals". How can I make one?

How can I unlock Vault-88 quest items with console commands?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 05:45 PM PDT

"This post may contain what can be considered spoilers!"

I have Fallout4 with all DLCs installed on my PC. When I started Vault-88 quest and I saw the ghoul overseer ordering me around. I didn't like it and I killed her.

A few days ago, I asked my friend to see his vault. In his screenshots, I noticed a fixed bike, a slot machine and eye exam. I found out that these items will be unlocked when you complete vault-88 quests.

I built my whole vault and completed many quests. I can't go back to the save before I kill the ghoul overseer. Is there any way to unlock those items with console commands? Maybe there are mods that unlock them, but I prefer to play vanilla game so I didn't install mods on my game.

Are there explanation on which zombies do what in infectonator 3?

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 03:53 AM PDT

For example, what does toxic zombies do?

The game is infectonator-3

https://steamcommunity.com/app/666570/discussions/0/2828702372994886406/

I couldn't find a complete list of what each unique zombie does.

Is it impossible to keep a streak (in FPS games) forever? [closed]

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 10:05 AM PDT

one trend that I have noticed is that even the best players, who may have a 4000 kill streak, eventually lose that streak. I know intuitively that no one can get the highest streak mathematically possible (infinity), but is there an actual gaming reason as to why no one can keep a streak forever? Also, I have noticed this trend in the history of war (no civilization can keep winning wars forever). Is my thinking correct?

Do support gems override or extend the "type" of attack skills

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 09:27 AM PDT

It sounds intuitive that when linking a support gem to a skill gem, the support gem can in a way alter the type of the skill. For example, it makes sense that linking a Ballista Totem Support to a Galvanic Arrow will make the skill benefit from effects that increase totem damage.

What's less intuitive is whether the skill altered this way still benefits from effects that boost the original type of that skill. To use the previous example with Ballista Totem Support and Galvanic Arrow, will taking passive skills that increase bow damage affect the damage of the totem as well?

The wiki page of the Ballista Totem Support says:

Totems use the player's own skills as though the player had cast them, ...

... which would imply the skill will still benefit from increased bow damage, but it doesn't directly confirm or deny it. I'm still new to the game and would really prefer a confirmation before spending my hard-earned skill points (considering how hard it is to unlearn passive skills).

How to change a shulker boxes texture based on its name

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 10:32 AM PDT

So, I have been trying for a bit to find a way to change a brown shulker boxes texture when its name is "Emergency Cookie Rations", sounds silly I know, but every technique I have tried has failed, sea of shulkers may have worked in its own version, but when I tried in mine it failed. My item texture name technique failed, and I tried a technique that worked on pillagers, that also failed. If anyone can help me, that would be appreciated. This is in java 1.16.5 optifine.

Does the number of "days" that a save has been going on for, matter?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 08:33 PM PDT

Does the number of "days" that a save has been going on for, matter, in either the first game or the second? Or is it just for your information and has no effect on anything?

Because I'm still in the Den of Devil in the first game, with 400+ days.

Perhaps there are there some timed quests that fail if not completed in some number of days? Or it's just something for those who want to know stats.

What's the speed that blocks regenerate from being hit?

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 04:18 AM PDT

What's the speed that blocks regenerate from being hit?

The Wiki on Breaking and Ticks isn't helping?

Changes (to controls, video settings, audio, etc) not saving when I close Minecraft

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 06:39 PM PDT

I've recently noticed that whenever I close my game, any changes I made during the time I was playing do not save. I do not know about vanilla worlds since I play servers only.

I noticed a while back that whenever I tried to activate flame particles, as soon as I close the game they'd become deactivated again. This goes for texture packs too, when I'd deactivate a Hypixel texture pack it would seemingly reenable reenable when I opened the game again.

My friend recently started a 1.16.5 SMP. As a Hypixel player I use 1.8.9 optifine but I want to have more fun so I switched (or at least tried to) to unmodded, no optifine 1.16.5, but it keeps resetting the controls, the video settings, even the "Do not show again" on the third party server warning. For some reason though, my 1.8.9 controls carry over to 1.16.5, even though they didn't carry over when I was still playing 1.14 vanilla (but that was more than a year ago).

I do not have java installed anymore to save space, would that be a problem?

Help is appreciated, thanks!

Problems with putting a saddle on a skeleton horse

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 01:05 AM PDT

I had a skeleton horse trap occur in my world and killed off the other skeletons and horses. I tried to tame the skeleton horse and once I get on it, it does respond to my controls but it seems super slow and unlike any other horse I've ridden in the game. I also can't open the "horse" inventory and equip a saddle. Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Note: I'm using the free education edition since I'm still considering buying the game. (It's free with a school account)

Having trouble joining friends world in Minecraft PE using wifi

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 02:01 AM PDT

I'm trying to play with my friend and were running into some difficultly. Both our wifi's are connected to the same network, literally right beside each other. We both have multiplayer on. We both have the newest update of Bedrock. Neither of us can connect to each other's worlds. We have even tried on different devices. When I go to my settings in my world it says friends of friends, but won't let me change it, saying I need to sign in to my Microsoft account. Well, my friend and I don't have a Microsoft account, or we couldn't sign at the moment... but I'm pretty sure all you really need is the same wifi connection, right? I'm having some real trouble and it would mean the world to me if you could help!

Why forfeit a Rocket League game?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 01:22 PM PDT

In Rocket League there is an option to forfeit games. Sometimes there will be seconds left on the clock and the majority of the team will vote to forfeit. In a recent game 2/3 voted to forfeit with 0:04 left in the game. With such little time left I don't really see the point. A lot could, potentially happen in four seconds also.

What benefits are there to forfeiting a game?

How can I reach the Announcement/RSS Page from a Steam Game Page?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 09:20 AM PDT

I created a Selenium Script that iterates though all the game URLS i have in a list (ie https://store.steampowered.com/app/400910 or https://store.steampowered.com/app/233450) and looks for the link to the Announcements page (ie. https://steamcommunity.com/games/rabi-ribi/announcements or https://steamcommunity.com/games/233450/announcements) and goes to this page to get the URL behind the "Subscribe to RSS Feed" (ie. https://steamcommunity.com/games/rabi-ribi/rss/ or https://steamcommunity.com/games/233450/rss/). This has come in handy for creating an import for RSSOwl to track the news for 700+ Steam games.

However it seems Steam has changed the Browser UI and I can no longer find a link to the Announcements page to then get the RSS URL.

Now I can't "guess" the URL with the ID as with the 2 games I provided as examples. Rabi Ribi doesn't use a Steam ID in its URL and if I try to use the ID (ie. https://steamcommunity.com/games/400910/rss/) it'll 404 and it'll be blind shots in the dark to try and find a variation of the game's title that'll work.

How can I reach the Announcement/RSS Page from a Steam Game Page?

How do I start a game from Steam from a batch file and wait for it to exit?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 02:17 PM PDT

I have an autohost app for Space Empires which I use to process turns in multiplayer games, but when I hook it up to the Steam instance of SE5, I find that it uploads the turn before it finishes processing!

Here is the command line I'm using in my batch file:

"C:\Users\edkol\Documents\Apps\Steam\steam.exe" -applaunch 1690 %*

And the arguments that get passed in as %* are just the standard SE5 command line arguments to process a turn, something like this template:

"{EnginePath}\Savegame\{GameCode}.gam" "{Password}" -moddir "{ModPath}"

So is there something I can add to my command line to wait for SE5 to exit before returning?

How exactly does Daruk's Protection work, deplete its charges, and recharge?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 07:18 PM PDT

So I recently earned Daruk's protection, and am excited to use it, but I'm a little confused about exactly what it does, and how often I can use it.

The explanation I got when it was granted basically told me two things, and one more is obvious:

  • It protects you from damage
  • It is activated by holding down LT
  • It has 3 charges

But I'm not clear on a how it actually works, and what "uses up a charge". Specifically:

  1. What are the types of damage it can protect from? (Are any excluded, like falling, fire, etc?)
  2. What are the limitations on using it? (Can I hold LT... forever? and why wouldn't I? Can I swing a weapon while using it? does it work on a horse? Does it shut off after some amount of damage is absorbed?)
  3. What actually "uses up" a charge, and how does recharging work? (I'm pretty sure I tested it right after I got it quickly, but it didn't deplete a charge. Is that because I didn't take any damage? Does it only recharge after all 3 are used, or does each one recharge? How long does it take?)

Note: I thought about whether these should really be multiple questions, but I think the real question is "What are the core mechanics of how Daruk's protection is used?," and I'm fairly sure the answers to that will be more useful than breaking it up.

Playing Catherine on PSNow with Keyboard & Mouse

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 01:03 PM PDT

Can I play Catherine on PSNow on Mac (on Parallels) with Keyboard & Mouse?

Will this configuration work? I heard that some games simply cannot be played without a controller?

Is it possible to affect NPCs from the CustomNPC mod via commands?

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 12:09 AM PDT

I am currently using the 1.8 version of Custom NPC. As I am making a map, I would like to know:

  • Can I TP an NPC using command blocks?

  • Can I clone an NPC using command blocks?

It would help me a lot if there is already a website or a video instructing ALL (or MOST) of the commands or abilities that can be done with command blocks + CustomNPCs.

What's the link between the different games in the Far Cry series?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 07:58 PM PDT

Is there a link between the games in the Far Cry series?

The only "confirmed" link I can find is that Far Cry 4 takes place after Far Cry 3 as it shares characters (Hurk and Willis) and refers to events in the previous games (Hurk's monkey exploits). Otherwise, I couldn't find any "confirmed" links, aside from "wide beliefs" that the first game's protagonist is the second game's antagonist.

Is there any "chronology" to the series?

How do I solve the puzzle with ten symbols each with six boxes?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 07:23 PM PDT

It's a purple room off of the giant throne room in the sky warp zone with a platform that has six purple crates and a pillar with two columns of five box symbols.

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