Palworld's playercount has spiked by almost 800% from its lows the last few months, and this is in fact the most players it has had since its launch window, since March 2024.
    • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
      11•3 months ago

      I don’t think I will buy another Nintendo console ever (unless they turn around) and will only buy 2nd hand games so Nintendo doesn’t get any money.

      The sad thing is that Nintendo does make very good games and some of the only great party games left with a low skill entry level

      • @derpgon@programming.devEnglish
        8•3 months ago

        The only way there is emulation. Sure, you won’t get to use the cool features of their hardware, and you might get to play a buggy game a year after release, but you are not supporting a shifty company - and that counts.

        • @mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6•3 months ago

          What “cool features” does Nintendo do anymore? The big draw of the switch was that it’s portable, and there’s dozens of handheld PC’s to compete there. Then there’s the motion control, which wasn’t great in the long run and can also be done by emulators with a variety of controllers supporting it

          • @derpgon@programming.devEnglish
            1•3 months ago

            Especially detachable controllers and their games supporting them. You can have two per player in a 4 player game, or 8 where each holds one. I quite liked the feature and found it novel. I am not sure if you can do the same using emulators - or at least do it as seamlessly.

      • @DaseinPickle@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        I’ll support Nintendo games. Nintendo is one of the big studios that actually publish finished games, and doesn’t fill them with micro transactions.

        I wish their lawyers where less aggressive, but the games are solid.

      • @Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        Heey, I have been doing the same. Sick of all of the manufacurers to be fair. I mostly buy the games seocnd hand too because publishers suck, last ones I supported were IOI and if they push always on internet connection in the 007 game I will pirate it.

        • @caut_R@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13•3 months ago

          This one‘s been spreading quite rapidly in the past few years. I wonder what happened.

            • DoomEnglish
              4•3 months ago

              this comment went unappreciated but I laughed

            • Mayor PoopingtonEnglish
              11•3 months ago

              At first I get annoyed at people confusing the two, but I remember there’s a lot of non native English speakers. And it’s words like this that make it such a hard language to figure out.

            • @Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
              6•3 months ago

              I’m the one who corrected them. I’m an american. quit being weird about americans for no reason.

            • @mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3•3 months ago

              As an American you’re right. Hell, a lot of Americans can’t even speak. I now a lot of engineers that pronounce “height” as “heighth”

      • @jroid8@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•3 months ago

        Even if they win the lawsuit the message has been sent. Any double A or triple A company can make a descent quality ripoff and get lots of money. Bonus points if they’re somewhere safe from Big N’s lawyers

  • I Cast FistEnglish
    14•3 months ago

    This update added a lot of new stuff to the game not counting the new really big island. Human bosses, an “arrogant pal tamer” that wants to see specific pals, a NPC that asks you to do specific emotes and one hidden npc that gave me a book that increases 1 work thingy by 1 (got one for handywork, the game crashed, then got one for planting, so there’s possibly one for each work)
    My biggest gripe at the moment is with predator pals, which don’t always spawn where they’re supposed to (fixed locations, unmarked on the map) but drop predator cores, which are needed for the inventory expansion, as well as giant pal souls.

    It also added some high QoL chests: one that lets you check ALL the chests in the base and the Guild Chest, which acts as a shared base chest. Another super useful building is the skill fruit farm: plant one, get 3 of the same skill.

    The new island starts with several anti-air missile places, but at least it seems you only need to disable them once. Whether the missiles will go through walls or rocks and kill your flyer seems to be random chance, but it at least tries to be physical projectiles.

  • @figjam@midwest.socialEnglish
    6•3 months ago

    Did they add any additional “sexy” “pals”? Asking because I don’t want to see them swarm my base.

  • Cid ViciousEnglish
    1•3 months ago

    Played a fair amount of this at launch, but will probably wait until 1.0 to go back. I’m assuming it’s a lot less buggy now?