Dorfdad
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I'm not sure honestly haven't played enough from what I played it's very heavily influenced by it, while I'm sure there are some major differences as you progress
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Hytale reportedly had 2.8M concurrent players at launch. 420k viewers on twitch.
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Hari Seldon
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Looks a lot like Minecraft. I would prefer another take on Valheim, which is like a top 5 game of all time for me when played with friends. I'll keep an eye on this, if they add progressions and boss fights it might be pretty awesome.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Here is a decent video going over 100 improvements Hytale has over Minecraft:
In short: its a more modern Minecraft with massive QoL features and more of an RPG slant. Still very much in early access though, but the future potential is massive for Hytale.
I haven't bought Hytale yet, but as someone with literally thousands of hours played in Minecraft I probably will spend the $20 for it. Seems to be everything I expected Minecraft to morph into when Microsoft bought it, but instead Minecraft hasn't really changed much at all in over a decade, except for little content additions.
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BeardSpike
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I also bought it Benny. I think I will try it out this weekend although I played Minecraft like a decade ago, lmao. But maybe I will like it.
Great to hear, as I mostly game on Linux now.
That's great
. Art direction and sound design always was more important to me than graphics.
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pudel
Member
Just try it. If you are on x11 I guess there is a good chance the game is running flawless. Most recent kernel stuff seemed a lot about wayland.
And if it doesnt work...you can refund.
BeardSpike
Gold Member
I didn't try to run it on older kernel but I tried to install Windows version through Lutris or Bottles, when I finally managed to run it, I had to use winetricks and run an exe through there since run exe in prefix didn't work, just WebView2 things.
I did manage to make it into the menus but during building my own server I got an error.
Native flatpak version runs just fine on my end although I can't seem to figure out how to run MangoHud with it.
pudel
any ideas?I tried both:
Code:
flatpak override --user --env=MANGOHUD=1 com.hypixel.HytaleLauncherAnd
Code:
sudo flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/MangoHud:ro com.hypixel.HytaleLauncherand it doesn't work.
I dropped my MangoHud config file to ~.var
Looked around in Flatseal to no avail.
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yurinka
Member
On average game publishers see around 10-18% of their Steam revenue go away with refunds, something that doesn't happen in other platforms.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
The game's great, it's the real deal. Works natively on Linux, too. With a bit of fiddeling can be made to run on the Deck, too.
To me it's full of little improvements in game design, pacing and QoL compared to Minecraft. Microsoft completely dropped the ball by not developing their 2B franchise properly over the years.
To me it's full of little improvements in game design, pacing and QoL compared to Minecraft. Microsoft completely dropped the ball by not developing their 2B franchise properly over the years.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yeah, I haven't bought it yet, I was going to wait to see how active development and support would be, but the more I see about the game the more I think I need it now. Everyone just praises the crap out of it, so many improvements over Minecraft. Its only been one week but its already been updated once with a second update coming very soon, and the devs have been very active and communicative with the players so its giving me a very positive vibe. Also they've made enough money to fund several years of support already so I think Hytale is here for the long haul.
I think I feel safe spending the $20 on it as I'm pretty confident I'd get my money's worth based on how the game is right now, let alone how it will be after a year or two of updates.
MiguelItUp
Member
Good for them, I honestly didn't think it would do this well at all. I figured hardcore Minecraft fans wouldn't be interested in it, or would hate it because of it being competition.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
The Minecraft community have not been happy with the glacial pace of improvements to the game over the past few years. Its felt like very small incremental updates for a long time now to Minecraft, like tons of untapped potential.
As someone who has been playing Minecraft since alpha, Hytale feels like a huge breath of fresh air. Its like Minecraft but with gobs of QoL updates, real progression, tons more mobs, much more robust building tools, plus far superior lighting and actual combat mechanics. I don't think its too surprising to see Hytale becoming so popular so quickly, Minecraft has been stagnant for far too long.
MiguelItUp
Member
Ah, that makes perfect sense. I don't keep up with Minecraft but I wondered about how the community felt about it's limited to no updates. Hell, good on them, no wonder it's doing so well.
ShadyAcshuns
Gold Member
At first I got this confused with Highguard. lol
I am having a blast. So much content already there; I just keep finding more and more as I keep playing.
Loving the motion/mobility improvements, the inventory improvements, and the combat. All huge upgrades over minecraft.
Even if no other content every came out... i got my $20 worth already.
Loving the motion/mobility improvements, the inventory improvements, and the combat. All huge upgrades over minecraft.
Even if no other content every came out... i got my $20 worth already.
My guess is they saw the game and saw that it did not have a real end-state or a way to hyper monetize it and they decided to let it go.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
Is it hackable like Minecraft? Run your own servers with their own tooling (automapping, special generation tools, etc)?
That's a huge part of Minecraft's longevity.
That's a huge part of Minecraft's longevity.
It is way more mod friendly than Minecraft has ever been. Have no clue about the server configuration capabilities
pudel
Member
Yep, you can create yr own servers: https://hytale.game/en/create-server-hytale-guide/
Kacho
Member
Hopefully it won't take an eternity to finish. My daughters love it. They think it's better than Minecraft because of simple things like sitting on chairs and building actual roofs lol
darrylgorn
Member
This game, QBJ3 and HL: Diffusion decided to systematically remove my life.
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