Palworld is now available in Early Access on Steam (and Gamepass, I believe)

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• gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When NTSCworld?

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  • SquigglyEmpire@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nerrrrrrd.

    …I would say “What about SECAMworld?”, but that definitely sounds like a nsfw cam models site.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not your Buddy, Pal!

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  • Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not your Pal, Friend!

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    • PHLAK@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not your friend, guy!

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• Nythos@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looking at the Steam page for this game shows that it’s all sort of genres, so what actually is this game and what do you do in it

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  • Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a pretty standard survival crafting game, I’ve seen it describes as Ark + Pokémon (particularly Legends Arceus if you’ve played it) . The game actually doesn’t have much of the wild shooting combat until much later levels. For the most part, you focus on catching “pals” for xp while putting them to work on your base. Like Pokémon, you get wild pals’ hp down to increase the chance of catching them and then throw balls like your life depends on it.

    The combat with your pals is pretty basic, you can command them to help you in battle but they really do their own thing beyond that (including kill the things you were trying to catch). That being said, managing large battles while throwing out balls and trying not to die can be pretty fun.

    The real appeal is setting up your base and putting your pals to work. Each type of pal has a different set of jobs they can perform, so you have to plan somewhat carefully to make your base as efficient as possible. Generally, the jobs involve either resource gathering or crafting. Crafting lets you queue up items for your pals to work on so you can start cranking out supplies pretty quick. Really, though, the appeal is getting to see a couple dozen guys running around working like a well oiled machine, and they have some fun animations to keep things interesting.

    It is pretty playable, though there’s definitely a few bugs (mostly pals disappearing into the terrain). The amount of damage various pals do with attacks seems almost divorced from their level, so you can be blindsided by something half your level if you don’t dump a lot of upgrade points into your health. Also, you currently have to run your own server to play multi-player, so it’s tough for people who don’t know their way around port forwarding and stuff like that.

    All that being said, I’ve put about 10 hours into it so far and am having quite a bit of fun with it. It feels like there’s still a lot to explore and do.

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    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you explain more about all the pals with rifles - and how they fit in?

      Screenshots make it look like it’s edgy pokemon with guns.

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  • vasus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s an open world survival game where you wake up on the beach of a mysterious island and need to scavenge resouces, explore, build bases and tame monsters to fight for you. You send some of the caught monsters to work in your base, they generate resources which you use to make new equipment to fight and catch stronger pals, eventually reaching the point where you have a powerful team that can take on dungeons and bosses who you want to take down for story reasons. I think the game’s strong points are the base automation and the variety of pals.

    It’s also got co-op and 32 player public servers

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    • Sabata11792@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Got a few hours in last night, quite fun and it very much is pokemon with guns, but at-least rather original for half the designs. So far its base building/exploration while training up legally distinct monsters, doing what everyone would ACTUALLY want to do in a pokemon game that gave you a weapon.

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• _lilith@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just got it. Did not know I wanted to jump pokemon with a baseball bat and take their stuff. 10/10 new experience

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• bort@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  someone make a lemmy community for palworld already

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• Thoth19@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And it’s surprisingly good

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I read it was a weird half baked game. Not in a bad way. Like, they made a meme game but they’re actively trying.

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    • Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The older I get the more I’ve come to realize that I like weird.

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it Electabuzz with a chaingun good?

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• ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I tried on pc gamepass and it’s very underbaked. No controller icons at all and not even a way to quit the game at the menu. You literally have alt+F4 to quit the game. I’ll wait a few weeks for the bugs to be fixed and try again.

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• Navarian@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can confirm the Game pass part.

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