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Been playing šŸ“ā€ā˜ ļø Palworld, I'm surprised online functions flawlessly! Also some notes for would be downloaders

Although playing online works, I havenā€™t tried a direct connection/invite with another person, due to me lacking PC master race friends.

In the general server list, I think the SA region stands for South America? In any case, my ping was really high, so actually playing online is not feasible for me.

Iā€™m using IGG gamesā€™ torrent version, it was a simple extract and run. The fake steam account name defaults to NooB, so I recommend you change it in the following folder: %appdata%RoamingGoldberg SteamEmu Savessettings - The account_name.txt is just the shown name, while the user_steam_id.txt is the acc number. Iā€™ve changed both. Keep in mind that changing the id might make your saves disappear, so youā€™ll have to create a new world, then copy over the save files - %appdata%LocalPalSaved

If youā€™re a fan of survival crafting, this game is a must play. The fact that you can play solo and change the world settings (exp rate, stamina depletion, hunger, etc) anytime before entering makes it perfect for all skill levels. I just think the default capture rate is too low, but I guess it makes more sense when youā€™re online in a guild?

No idea how many hours Iā€™ve spent playing, but Iā€™m definitely buying this game in a few months.

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

But it doesnā€™t function flawlessly, at least not yet. I know of one pretty big online networking bug that affects me ā€“ You currently cannot connect directly to a password-ed server (by IP), it wonā€™t prompt for the password and it simply denies entry. And since the multiplayer server browser is pure garbage, you canā€™t even properly search for the password-ed server because the search only filters the current page youā€™re on, and even pagination is flat broke.

This game has a lot to get fixed. This is my major hit list that Iā€™d like to see fixed/enhanced:

  • Fix it so a client can directly connect to a server that requires a password without having to use the server browser
  • Fix the server browser so pagination works properly
  • Fix the server browser so keyword searching actually filters across all registered servers, not just the currently-loaded page
  • Fix the server so when purposefully not registering as a public server, it doesnā€™t show in the server list (my private server is not supposed to be listed, but I had a random stranger connectā€¦and since I cannot password the server yet due to the bug listed above, they got on and built stuff before I could kick them ā€“ and I cannot destroy anything they made)
  • Enhance it so an admin can destroy all content irrespective of guild
  • Fix the in-game chat so it actually scrolls properly and can be user-scrolled up and down
  • Fix the pal AI and pathing, itā€™s atrocious
  • Enhance it so you can dedicate a specific pal to a specific job
  • Fix it so party pals will properly attack incoming raids outside of the base circle
  • Enhance it so storage bins can be labeled (without having to use signs)
  • Enhance it so if there is a security code on a door or storage box, it doesnā€™t allow other guild members access without knowing the security code (this would require a level of ownership to each crafted item)
  • Enhance it so stacks can be divided by an arbitrary user-defined number instead of only by half
  • Enhance it so signs can be placed on foundation pieces
  • Fix it so pals that fight intruders cannot destroy buildings and other crafted/placed items
  • Fix it so wooden ā€œsecurityā€ walls are are not so easily destroyed by a simple pal invader
  • Fix it so other pals and players cannot become invisible
  • Fix it so in-dungeon bosses cannot use an ability that would place them outside the arena, thus requiring restarting the fight (in other words, fix the collision detection so properly bound the boss to the arena)

Iā€™m sure Iā€™m forgetting numerous other issues.

nostradiel ,
@nostradiel@lemmy.world avatar

So you can pirate this and still play officially online? Just curiousā€¦

ICastFist OP ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Right now, yes. Some servers are already running 1 version higher, havenā€™t tried connecting to them yet. You can also play on Community servers, just check the left part of the screen for the button, Iā€™ve had better latency on them.

SomeBoyo ,

Donā€™t use IGG they have proven time and time again to be unreliable.

WildlyCanadian ,
@WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca avatar

What alternative would you recommend?

SomeBoyo ,

Look in the megathread

Ozy ,

The go to would be the forum cs.rin.ru . They have two boards Russian and English but you donā€™t need to bother with the Russian side.

0_o ,

Usually I have no issues with the above site but when looking for the latest patch this is the result of a virus total scan from a very prominent known-user: www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ā€¦/behavior

Gonna have to reassess my views regarding the safety of this siteā€¦

ColdCreasent ,

I see nothing in the virustotal results that I would be concerned with. The only file with issues is the online fix, which makes sense that it will find something about it, because most cracks will show some false positives. Take a look at the results and check what it says.

0_o ,

Iā€™m no stranger to false positives, especially when virus scanners are all too keen to label things as ā€œhacktoolsā€ and class them as malicious. However there is apparently no need for an online fix at the moment as there is no real authentication to play online so I just canā€™t understand why there are so many calls to specific IP addresses that arenā€™t in the legitimate version. (As there are currently no need to run pirated servers)

Also itā€™s the first time Iā€™ve see so many sigma flags in the sandbox tests. When I see ā€œCritical: Ransomwareā€ I get spooked. (As Iā€™ve never seen this level of warning before. Nothing above a medium, infact)

Ive done quite a bit of googling but havenā€™t been able to find much to dissuade my fears with sandbox flags like theseā€¦ Whatā€™s more cracks from different users all have differing detection flags and call different IP addressesā€¦

TL;DR: Iā€™m out of my depth with this one.

ColdCreasent ,

That makes more sense, and a bit beyond my depth as well. But this is not the sites issue at this point, just some honest questions about the online fix.
I was under the impression we needed the online fix for it to work with other legitimate players. It doesnā€™t make sense to have an online fix if one isnā€™t needed. Iā€™ll look into that part more, but I can see it being titled ransomware if they redirect queries to another server to make them go to the legit server and bypass the legit check.
Still depends on if we needed the online fix or not from the beginning, and then the question becomes, ā€œhow did they make the online check work, and where does it redirect to?ā€

Dark_Dragon ,

How to go to English board? I am only seeing Russian. Iā€™m using Google translate page to read the page. Help

Ozy ,

Yo sorry, I know this is 23 days old, hopefully you figured it out by now, but if you still didnā€™t

When you log in the website it should show you two separate tables. The top table is the Russian forum.

What you want is the one called ā€œMain Forumā€ from the second table.

TUTUTU_uhh ,

Could you explain further? IGG has been around for many years and is respected. I for one appreciate them.

SomeBoyo ,

rentry.co/megathread-unsafe-sites#games

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

iirc IGG releases actually dropped crypto miners for a while, lost their trusted status at /r/crackwatch over it. i would rather not download something at all if my only option were IGG.

Weslee ,

By the way, SA is South(east) Asia typically

JackGreenEarth ,

Or south Africa. Shame most of the continents start with A

mckean ,
@mckean@programming.dev avatar

Here I am, sitting in the south of Antarctica believing Iā€™m lucky because finally I might have some good latency. Too good to be true.

Weslee ,

Just geolocated it and itā€™s in Brazil

ICastFist OP ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I thought Brazil was in Buenos Aires?

amanaftermidnight ,

tbf all the real ones start with A:

  • Asia
  • Africa
  • Antarctica
  • Australia
  • America (North)
  • America (South)

The only fake one is Europe, being part of Asia geographically.

thantik , (edited )

I bought it. Itā€™s good enough to deserve the money. Especially one of this quality. Already got more than 80 hours in it, and Iā€™m not even through 1/4 of the map. Itā€™s already earned itā€™s price.

obinice ,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

I considered buying it, I tried it out on Gamepass first, and alas it crashed 5 times with illegal memory access errors before I could even get past character creation haha.

Iā€™m looking forward to trying out the game, I just canā€™t afford to buy the full thing at the moment, and will have to wait until theyā€™ve patched out the more serious bugs.

Which is fine of course! Iā€™ll just wait 6 months or so, and come back to it then ^_^ If Iā€™d paid money for it Iā€™d have been upset, but as it stands Iā€™m good.

aubertlone ,

They just released the patch on game pass.

Give it another shot.

Alto ,
@Alto@kbin.social avatar

There's been a lot of weird issues with the game pass version that the steam version doesn't have for whatever reason

Blxter ,
@Blxter@lemmy.zip avatar

Could be wrong but I believe Xbox requires more certifications to pass for updates thatā€™s why the console version is behind steam as well.

thantik ,

Iā€™m on steam and the game hasnā€™t crashed once in the near week of owning it. Havenā€™t had any data loss bugs or anything either. Whereas all my pals on gamepass/xbox/microsoft store version haveā€¦

So IF you pirate it, try to get a steam version.

ICastFist OP ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Yeah, the game can crash a lot, Iā€™m on v0.1.2.0. One even fucked up my save, with the crash happening during the loading screen. Luckily, Iā€™ve managed to restore an earlier save, lost about 10 minutes of progress, so no biggie.

Other crashes Iā€™ve had happened while entering cave dungeons, after sending a pal to battle, activating a special ability, attacking human enemiesā€¦

BrownianMotion ,
@BrownianMotion@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

1337x has a 0.1.3.0 version (of the IGG version) now.

ICastFist OP ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Nice, Iā€™ll get it later today

littlebluespark ,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

A friendly reminder that not everyone makes an equivalent living, especially not in USD, and that feeling of ā€œeh, give them $30, guysā€ could come across as ā€œeh, give them more than you make in a weekā€ šŸ˜…

thantik ,

If you make less than $30 in a week, you likely arenā€™t on lemmy. I wonā€™t go into how much I make, but I probably make less than 99% of people on here. Difference being how I managed my money when I did have it so I set myself up to not have to pay rent, power, etc. Most things I do are pre-paid a year in advance to save money (for example, did you know you can get smartphone service for like $150 for the whole year?)

littlebluespark ,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

Citation needed AF. šŸ¤¦šŸ¼ā€ā™‚ļø

thantik , (edited )

For what? The phone service? Because I promise you lemmy is middle-upper class white people.

Kiosade ,

Man I loved the Enshrouded demo, and was waiting for it to come outā€¦ then this Palworld comes out of nowhere and sucks up all my freetime. And THEN I forgot that Enshrouded was coming out this week, so likeā€¦ I guess I wonā€™t be playing that just yet šŸ˜… did it turn out to be as good as the demo made it seem?

thantik ,

Enshroudedā€™s voxel terrain and build system is really amazing, tbh. Iā€™m not so sure their storyline or gameplay loop is great just yet. Iā€™ve got a couple of friends that play it, but I couldnā€™t afford it just yet. Iā€™ll probably pick it up in a couple of days if I can manage to muster up the cash. So far Palworld has taken me off of ARK: Survival Ascended - which I got gifted to me. So Iā€™ve been pretty happy not dealing with Wildcardā€™s bullshit. Other than that, my other entertainment is pirated switch games.

I think overall Enshrouded might end up holding more of my attention in the long run. Palworldā€™s max cap is like level 50 and it seems pretty linear of a grind. I expect in 2 weeks or so Iā€™ll be done with it.

Kiosade ,

That sounds like my current trajectory as well. Iā€™m almost level 30, with a friend who runs the server Iā€™m playing on being late 30ā€™s, and is starting to catch things well into the 40ā€™s. I can almost see the endgame coming.

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