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(cw: gore) Half Sword launches its Early Access ($20) on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

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Completely worth 3x the price. It's the best fighting game I've played. Everything from weapons to armour to body parts are accurately modeled, with physics-based combat instead of scripted animations. There's already a modding community growing around it.

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I played about an hour so far. The performance has taken a hit, especially on one of the new open maps, and I've got a weird AMD bug with blood visuals. Otherwise it's a huge improvement over the demo. The additional RPG mechanics make it feel like We Who Are About to Die, and there's some great weapon customisation now.

[–] RobnHood@hexbear.net 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It looks fun and interesting, I might check it out tomorrow and if it runs too badly I can just refund it.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 2 points 22 hours ago

I'd give it about a week or two before performance catches up with the demo. Most if not of all the negative reviews are calling out things they're already addressing in day 1 hotfixes. It'll probably flip to Mostly Positive by the end of February and maybe reach Overwhelmingly Positive by 1.0. I have the same faith in it that I did buying the kickstarter alpha version of Rimworld.