Major Changes

• Aiden interactions have now been fixed! While speedrunners had found some interesting strategies from using his menus, we’ve now changed most of the problems so those of you playing normally can no longer reverse time or change your father into the hookshot through changing pages. (There’s a legacy toggle in the options menu for speedrunners.)
• New mechanic – Overleveling! We’ve heard about players who reach the level cap in skills or talents early through legitimate means, so the new overleveling trees will help ensure that you can continue advancing your farming or angular momentum combat abilities. All overleveling abilities stack endlessly.
• Hard mode boss fights! Each boss now has an optional challenge mode.
  • Kylie can be engaged before you kill the goat.
  • You can now fight Regret & Train Station without fully closing the gates if you’ve mastered the hoop skip.
  • No one will remember Joshumatron.

Bug fixes

• Dragonflies will no longer emit a low wail when you kill them under certain circumstances.
• Police officers now spawn correctly outside of bathrooms instead of in the paper towel dispenser.
• Your father is immune to Void Damage (sorry, Chaos Well fans!)
• The bird skip has been disabled.
• Dogs cannot teleport if you activate the Spoon Seeker power.
• What Are You Playing has been made 40% more coherent.
• Reginald has found the password to your bank account and cannot be stopped.
• There’s a well on the hill (as intended).

Bonus question: How long do you have to not play a game before you uninstall it from your hard drive?

​Andrew Ross (@dengarsw): It’s a busy Pokemon Go weekend but I hope to play some Mario Kart World with family friends who just got a Switch 2, maybe get the dogs to play too.

Uninstalls generally have more to do with space than time. Admittedly, I often wait until space is gone to pull the trigger, but sometimes if I just don’t love a game but I know it takes up tons of space (and if I actually made space to install it in the first place…) it’ll get the boot pretty fast. Like most VR games.

Brianna Royce (@nbrianna.bsky.social, blog): I’m gonna dabble in some Palia housing this weekend, but I’ve also started poking my nose back into Guild Wars 2 just to see what I’ve missed over the last while. I am hesitant to go ham on it right now because I know I’ll want to do that in October, though.

Bonus: It depends! I switched to using Playnite to manage my games a while back, and it’s made me conscious of how many games I have at any given time (since I can see them visually all at once). It actually makes it easy to notice a game I’m not playing and boot it, so I’m probably keeping fewer games around a long time than I used to (they can’t hide in a subfolder). On the other hand, I have a few MMORPGs that just took me so long to mod and set up UIs that I am not gonna uninstall them even when I am not playing. And if it’s really awful, it’s gone as soon as I log out. If I know this is the last time I will bother, it’s gone ASAP.

Chris Neal (@wolfyseyes.bsky.social, blog): It’s very likely going to be a bunch of Guild Wars 2 for me this weekend, either doing some more casual mapping as my Necro or trying to figure out how to Mesmer because I must know what the Troubadour will be like. Past that and some occasional stuff in Palia, I think I’m set.

Bonus: It usually takes me a few months for me to uninstall a game from my drive. Either that or the need to clear out some space on my drives for something else. It’s kind of 60/40 on how that plays out.

Eliot Lefebvre (@Eliot_Lefebvre, blog): It’s next week when I get a big rush of updates and stuff to play in my games; this week I’m going to be watching the TennoCon updates and focusing on getting things done in Warframe and Final Fantasy XIV while trying to manage my anxiety levels. That one is dubious.

I try to give myself a three-month rule. If it’s been three months since I played a game, the odds are pretty good that uninstalling it is just a good idea to free up some space, and it also means that it’s a good check to see if I’m immediately going to say, “hey, wait, I actually want to play that now.” This is excepting the games that I just refuse to uninstall because… who knows, it matters to me for reasons I cannot adequately explain.

Sam Kash (@[email protected]): It’s going to be a light gaming weekend for me again. Being more than halfway through the summer everything is coming to a head. So I’ll largely be hanging with family this weekend. Hopefully I can sneak away for some moments of freedom though.

Bonus: I rarely think about uninstalling games. They stay on the drive up until l can not fit anything new. At that point I can usually get rid of games that have shut down and then just large ones I only played a few times will be axed.

Tyler Edwards (blog): I’m on the cusp of finishing the main story in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and then I plan to start on Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, which I got on the recent Steam sale. I would also like to find the time to play at least a bit of ZeroSpace’s latest demo.

Bonus: You guys are uninstalling games? My hard drive is the digital equivalent of an episode of Hoarders. “Why do you still have Aion installed?” “[Sobbing] I don’t know!”

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