If you’d like to stop Steam from automatically updating a game, select “Only update this game when I launch it” from the game’s Library page > Properties > Updates.

So I think in addition to disabling auto-updates you have to play in offline mode once an update happens, or launch outside of Steam. at least, with Skyrim the script extender directly launched the exe so Steam’s “update on launch” wouldn’t happen, and I’m not quite sure what the correct way to do that for Cyberpunk is. 🤔

First off, don’t be like me - either use a mod manager (Vortex with the cyberpunk extension), or be sure to disable automatic game updating - otherwise you’ll come back to your game after steam auto-updates it and wonder where all your mods went. 😅

Anyway, back to the list of mods I was running - no guarantee that they’re all 100% compatible with the latest update, but the vast majority of them should be. You also can’t go wrong checking out the Top of All Time list on Nexus - I’m sure there’s some larger overhauls there that are great, but not something I used.

• Vehicle Customizer
  • lets you swap skins on player owned vehicles, so you can finally own those not-purchasable cool car colors that you find in the world.
• Pocket Radio
  • lets you listen to the radio while on foot!!
• Sensible Stamina and Athletics
  • I was playing a melee character and even so, didn’t get super high in athletics with this mod. I’d be scared to see how rough it is to level up athletics vanilla
• Immersive First Person
• Enhanced Weather
• Ragdoll Physics Overhaul
• Subdermal Armor Scaled Up
• Black Durable Synthetic Biker Coat

UI / Quality of Life mods:

• Limited HUD
  • this gives you much more granular control over what appears, and also lets you configure UI elements based on game state (ie, show during combat or not during combat); combine with Muted Markers for even more customization.
• Minimal Markers
• Quest Untracker
  • for untracking that “meet hanako at embers” quest without going into the menus
• No Camera Auto-Centering
  • the camera re-centering after like 2 seconds when driving always bugged me, and this mod fixes it.
• Filter Saves by Lifepath and Type
• Smaller Item Arrows

Performance-increasing / bug fix / visual mods:

• Optimized Crowd & Traffic Density
• Optical Camo Bug Fixes
• Vanilla Billboard LODs Improved
• Misty Appearance Mod
  • b/c honestly she should look way more goth than the vanilla game

Mods around increasing immersion, depending on your taste:

• Restrict Crafting/Upgrading to Inside Apartments
  • what it says on the tin! I was trying to go back to my apartments pretty frequently to shower / sleep / etc so this was another way of nudging me back
• Street Vendors
  • most of the street vendors will now trade with you!

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is one of my favorite indie games of all time. The city design really captures the feeling of wandering around an unfamiliar, large, bustling place. The diary mechanic at the end of the day is a great way to get in character, and I like that you can decorate the apartment. I did some light data-mining (mostly item info and dialogue strings), and I even have fridge magnets of some of the pixel art!

Depanneur Nocturne is also a great evening’s worth of exploration and vibes, but I mention it because it has a reference to Spaceport Janitor and it made me SO happy when I realized that. :)

Yeah, this is the distinction I usually make - beating the game is rolling the credits, finishing the story, what have you. Completing the game is doing all the side quests / koroks / enemy camps / content in the game.

In my household beating the game has the same meaning as “rolling credits” - largely based on Backloggery’s distinction between beaten and completed games. I’ve started focusing on actually beating games/rolling credits in the past ~3 years and while there’s still a few games I’ve started and put down unfinished for various reasons, I beat 25 games in 2022 and 14 so far in 2023.

I’d be interested to know what the difference in language means for you - would “beat” apply only to games that don’t have post-credits gameplay?

So it’s not the same as a fully featured wiki application, but I host a docker instance of VS Code on my NAS pointed at my obsidian vault volume, then SSH tunnel into it when I’m on devices away from home. Foam (VS Code extension) helps add some missing Obsidian features (backlinks pane, syntax highlighting, some autocomplete, cmd-click to navigate wiki links).

I can share more implementation details if anyone’s interested; caveat is that unfortunately it doesn’t work on mobile.

Other options I looked into:

1. GitHub - gollum/gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
   • this requires you to use git in your vault, which didn’t work with my personal set-up, but might not bother you?
2. Raneto - Markdown Knowledgebase for Node.js
   • I couldn’t get this container to load anything in the browser; possibly less an issue with my vault content and more of an issue with my container set-up so maybe it’d work better for you.
3. GitHub - Zavy86/WikiDocs: 📗 Just a databaseless markdown flat-file wiki engine…
   • this version looks like it supports PUID and GUID assignment for volume read/write, if that matters. I didn’t try it though.
4. Filestash — Self-hosted client for your data
   • Taking a look in the docker installation instructions, I couldn’t find anywhere to put a local volume mounted to the docker container. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t actually interface with local files, so I didn’t test further.

Hah, if where I work is any indication, I’d guess the interview was filmed ~3 days before the event, there was a late night push to get this edit completed, it didn’t get fine-tooth-combed before release, and was handed off hours before the event. Shit happens when creative teams don’t get enough time to do their job!

The story felt much more impactful to me than BotW. I was so glad they did give us a bit of linear story at the beginning, rather than starting us in the sky with none of the lead-up. I also made sure to watch the memory cutscenes in order, and basically binged the last 3 in a row because I was too excited to space them out more. And, the final battle + ending was exciting and cinematic.

There’s definitely critiques that can be made after the fact, but in the moment I was emotionally invested in a way that BotW never reached for me.

I would bet they are releasing on the Wednesday after Labor Day specifically so that the premium early-access date is right before most people with a salaried job are having a long weekend. Which is scummy of MS/Bethesda but I guess I’m the sucker cause I’m taking that whole week off and ofc I want to start playing right after I get off work on Friday. 🤷

yeah, I played both FO4 and Cyberpunk on release; had no game-breaking bugs in FO4 and no game-breaking bugs in Cyberpunk (only a couple immersion-breaking ones, and one of those was more hilarious than anything else). I played Skyrim on PS3 in December 2011, so possibly after a patch or two, but don’t remember anything other than having fun – certainly nothing game-breaking.

I understand it’s a little different for Cyberpunk since launch experience really varied based on platform, but the narrative around Bethesda games being buggy messes baffles me. This game has been cookin’ longer than usual for Bethesda games and now Microsoft is relying on it being fantastic since it’s basically their only big AAA game in 2023. I’m betting (with my preorder) that it will be nothing like the Jedi: Survivor launch or the Redfall launch.

ahhHH, very cool!! glad the first game was popular enough to support the dev in making more.

I played their first game, In Other Waters, and loved the writing so I really need to get on with playing Citizen Sleeper; maybe as a palette cleanser between Starfield and the Cyberpunk DLC.

Tragically, it only supports iOS 16 so far. thankfully the web versions of lemmy et al work decently enough on my iPhone SE 2016 🧓

They had a demo of this on steam I think… last year? Or somewhat recently anyway. It was way more addicting than I expected, even with just the limited demo options, so I’ll be keeping an eye out for the release date. Nice to see a lot of different variety in buildings, etc here too.

There’s a lot of generic stuff in the Wholesome Direct / cozy game genre (bingo card, anyone?), so here are my highlights of the show (this got much longer than I expected):

Frogsong (trailer, steam) — this selection courtesy of my partner; nicely animated frogs, minimal yet charming backgrounds, and action-adventure gameplay. Out now!

I Am A Caterpillar (trailer, steam) — the camera angle at the beginning caught my eye, and “monch things as a caterpillar that doesn’t want to become a butterfly” is a neat premise.

Sticky Business (trailer, steam) — I’d previously seen a gif from this on twitter and thought it looked cute; I particularly like the chunky style of the pixel art. looking forward to messing around with the demo.

Moonstone Island (trailer, steam) — nice-lookin’ pixel art caught my eye; not a monster-collector game player myself but I bet this will have some fans.

A Little to the Left: Cupboards & Drawers DLC (trailer, steam) — kinda disappointed this is coming out as DLC instead of part of the main game, and 25 levels feels a bit small, depending on the pricepoint. these types of levels were definitely the most enjoyable part of the base game, though, so more is nice.

Smushi Come Home (trailer, steam) — yet another low-poly indie adventure game, but something about the trailer felt very charming to me. Also out now!

Surmount (trailer, steam) — a mountain-climbing version of Heave-Ho?

Everdeep Aurora (trailer, steam) — snazzy retro-styled pixel art and nice color schemes with adventure gameplay; the style kinda reminds me of Gato Roboto.

Kibu (trailer, steam) — the Omno dev is making a new game! I got distracted from finishing Omno, but I enjoyed the time I spent with it. This being a second game, I hope it smooths out some of the rougher edges present in Omno (eg. floppy-feeling movement).

The Guardian of Nature (trailer, steam) — sometimes the art feels a little too digital-smooth, but the landscape exploration shots looked really nice to me.

Botany Manor (trailer, steam) — I love the concept of growing plants as puzzles, and the environmental art reminds me of budget The Witness in a really nice way.

A Highland Song (trailer, steam) — I was sold from the first Scottish accent, but the 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault peeps are doing this?! Very excited. (why isn’t scotland the setting for more games??)

Sushi Ben (trailer) — VR slice-of-life about saving a Sushi restaurant, lookin’ nifty.

The Star Named Eos (trailer, steam) — I loved SEASON’s scrapbook, and the photo puzzles here look similarly appealing!

Tiny Bookshop (trailer, steam) — I don’t play management games very much, but I think this one might grab me.

Townframe (steam) — “create a picture based on a written description” reminds me of something but I’m not sure what. Looks like a bite-sized weekend chill game.

Overall, not quite as hype as last year (I’m dying for Naiad and Horticular to come out) but still a good bunch of things to keep an eye on. :)

Right now, Ascension (deck building game) with a friend – we started off playing Shards of Infinity in tabletop simulator but I finally wanted to play Ascension enough I bought a copy for each of us. Having fun trying all the expansions!

Probably some TotK later; I’m working on collecting all the shrines right now, which also means running around in the depths finding light roots.

I’m seeing lots of demos being added to Steam in advance of the official start of Steam Next Fest on the 19th, so I want to run through the list and download a couple that sounded interesting from the Guerilla and Day of the Devs showcases.

Oof, I remember that lightroot…

I have a similar story of stubbornness, where I hopped back and forth between two floating blocks, slowly ultrahanding them forward and up until I got to a sky island I wanted to explore. Now that I have way more battery, I’ll never do that again! But it was extremely satisfying that the game allowed me to inch my way through the sky like that.

I think there’s something really fun about going into this type of shrine, quietly freaking out about getting hit, killing your first construct, then getting great satisfaction from the immediate boost in DPS by fusing their horn with your weapon.

I’ve also enjoyed them as a nice way to re-experience “powering up”, since I’m close to endgame.