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- Comment on No, commuters of Bus Bound's Steam Next Fest demo, I will not stop publicly transporting you to the scene of accidents 5 days ago:
Really fun demo. Do yourself a favour and ignore Hond's review. I have no idea what they're talking about or why they're so filled with hate.
I'll go negatives first - It definitely needs optimising, but I was getting a pretty smooth 55 fps on my 4060 RTX on medium settings with DLSS set to "Balanced" on my Ultrawide at 2560 x 1080. Also, why is it having to precompile shaders every time I launch it? I found at least one hilarious bug where a mountain bike would suddenly appear glued to the front of the bus sideways when I pulled into a bus stop. And that's it... pretty much.
The rest of the game is really fun. I've been looking for a decent Bus driving game (not so much sim) for AGES. Also, going into this I had no love for Sabre Interactive. They absolutely ruined Dakar Desert Rally. What a horrible mess that game turned out to be! I have to admit though... they've redeemed themselves a little with this demo. At least I think so.
So, the good things that come to mind are...
It worked immediately with my T-248 wheel. No messing about with confusing settings like in THE BUS. It just worked and it was really easy to adjust all the settings.
I love how you have fixed side mirrors but you get a temporary mirror that appears only when you indicate and only on the side you indicate. It works really well and doesn't clutter up the UI when it's not needed. ETS2, for example does offer UI mirrors but they're either on or off and not cleverly tied to the indicator like in this game.
The people in the town look good and walk around naturally. At least a LOT more naturally than the pedestrians in BUS SIMULATOR 21. There's also a decent amount of people and a nice variety of cars as well.
I love the town itself. It feels like a city that's buzzing with activity and looks really nice. The lighting is great and the sunshine and rain effects feel perfect to me. Compared to the weird plastic town feel of BUS SIMULATOR 21 this is a breath of fresh air. I wanted to love BS21 so much but I just couldn't play it because the environment was so jarringly fake feeling.
I also really liked the game loop. How you unlock extras routes and buses by getting "likes" from your passengers for each bus stop by following all the good driving rules. It made me want to keep driving the routes till I'd filled up each bus stop's "Like" meter and got that all important star. I also really like not having to fiddle about with change and tickets for passengers because bus travel is free in this game. I really didn't enjoy BS21 where you have to get up and go check each passenger for tickets and figure out if anyone's trying to ride the bus for free. I just wanna drive man!
I'm really excited to see how they improve this game and for an early access demo this seriously impressed me. It feels like there might FINALLY be a good bus game on the horizon 😁
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found? 1 week ago:
G-Rebels demo is back. I just love how nimble the ship is in this one. Fully upgraded you can get up to insane speeds with it darting around the cyberpunk style city. Personally I think they should make more of that, so that you can fly through more narrow gaps and maybe even underground tunnels. Also I've been watching their Discord for a while and they seem to be really going full steam ahead (no pun intended) with this one. Can't wait for the full game 🙂
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- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 1 week ago:
Absolutely. Also, I'd love to make it a rule that you can't start a review with
"I really wanted to like this game but..."
Aww... Did you pumpkin? Are you SO disappointing that you don't get to like a thing you wanted to like? That must be so rough for you. Anyone using that opener is immediately suspicious to me.
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 1 week ago:
You've just reminded me actually, there was a game I loved playing the demo for called "Truck World: Australia - First Haul" I saw back in June that got hugely review bombed (maybe by ETS2 fans?). "Worse than a mobile game" and "It's way too red" were two I remember 🤣
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 1 week ago:
I believe how it works is people buy the game, write the negative review and then refund it. Review bombing is not only definitely a thing but Steam have gone to great lengths to combat it, which would be odd if it was imaginary.
- Comment on am I cooked chat 1 week ago:
You're right. He doesn't tend to kick the little people, unless they're nicking stuff. I still remember that episode with those two owners (Amy and Samy) at Amy’s Baking Company. They were just such completely unrepentant, terrible people. Apparently they shut the place in 2015 and left the country lol
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 1 week ago:
Oh ok 🙂 It was Seafarer: The Ship Sim. A day after they launched they got a load of negative reviews that took them down to a "Mostly Negative" rating. That's improved since then, presumably once more genuine reviews came in.
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 1 week ago:
Really well explained thanks! 🙂
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 1 week ago:
That's good to know.
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 1 week ago:
Didn't want to mention the name of the game cos some might claim I'm stealth marketing for it or some bs like that.
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- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 3 weeks ago:
Played the demo of Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream a while back so might buy it now it's 20% off. Not surprised it got "Overwhelmingly Positive". Bloody excellent game.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 34 comments
- Comment on Which stage are you at? 1 month ago:
I'm at the "Happy with Windows, thanks" stage.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 month ago:
Wow... there's already labels for the sides that would fight each other: "Accelerationists" and "Doomers". I really hope that's not a road we all end up going down for real. Would make interesting fiction though!
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 month ago:
Just wait till someone turns AI worship into a literal religion. I'm kinda surprised it hasn't already started happening. That would be a heck of a turning point for humanity. Just takes someone to train an AI into thinking it's a God and then we really are done.
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See, this is why I keep struggling when I'm telling someone about something I heard on here and they ask if it was on reddit
"No... it was on erm... well... it's this other place. It's not reddit... thank God it's not reddit but it's called erm... well it was Mbin and then that shut down and then it was kbin and now I'm on fedia.io but actually it's lemmy... but it's part of the fediverse... I think? it's... yeah it's like reddit basically but it's not... anyway this asteroid is going to zip by the earth later today. Here's a live youtube page that's tracking it" 🤣
- Comment on The World’s Largest Solar Plant is Rising in Tibet. It's So Vast It's the Size of Chicago 1 month ago:
Wow, I had a look around on Google maps for "solar panels in NW China’s Qinghai Province"... it's incredible and so vast and there's so many other massive solar and wind farms everywhere as well. How do they keep them clean? Surely output must degrade over time no? There's even one where they made it into the shape of a giant horse. I guess that must be the logo of the energy company? Amazing...
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 1 month ago:
Can't math so would do it entirely visually and I would get it wrong but feel happy that I'd picked a number (in this case 215) and been able to move on 🤣
- Comment on Reeves ‘plots tax raid on landlords’ to help plug £40bn Budget black hole 1 month ago:
So... Reeves thinks taxing landlords using NI will make them sell up and release properties into the market which will drive down prices. What is more likely to happen though is that taxing landlords more = landlords immediately charge more rent = fewer people rent = more people buy houses = increased demand drives house prices up = landlords charge even more rent as their property is worth more now = landlords make more money than ever and renters get unbelievably screwed in a rental market that was already bleeding them dry. Reeves makes £2Bn though, so what's a few more homeless families eh?
- Comment on I quit my job to make my own game. Toll Booth Simulator 1 month ago:
Maybe the reveal will be that it was made entirely with AI? Shenanigans vibes for sure...
- Comment on I quit my job to make my own game. Toll Booth Simulator 1 month ago:
This seems deliberately bad. It kind of reminds me of those games designed to prove a point about Steam or something "HAHA Nobody saw the trick I was playing on them. I made this game in 20 minutes and thousands of people wishlisted it." That sort of thing? I could be wrong though. Just feels like it's something along those lines.
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