You probably know this already, but if you don't get slowed down that much on T3, definitely move up, but if you're just getting killed too much or don't kill stuff fast enough, stay on T2. I farmed T3 for a while, even though I had unlocked T4, because I would just get one-shot too much. After some more upgrades and a Mythic Unique, I was finally able to do T4 efficiently.

since for whatever reason ancestral items don’t drop that often for me, and the last thing I have to do is salvage 100 of them. It might have to do with the Torment level I’m on

I'm on Torment 4 and yeah, they don't drop a lot. If you're on a high enough difficulty, Ancestral Uniques probably drop more, since you can farm the Uber bosses, who basically only drop uniques. I think that objective was the second to last one I finished for the journey (the last are the 5 Helltide Commanders, which I don't probably won't do).

I thought I was done with the latest Diablo 4 season last week, but then I put in a bunch more hours this weekend. While the season and the expansion is generally fun, it feels like the devs took two steps forward and one step back. Progression seems a lot more tedious, compared to before. In earlier seasons, you could basically unlock the highest difficulty really fast and progress pretty quickly to the endgame content. Now, with everything a lot harder and a bunch more difficulty options, you take twice or three times as long, to get to the same point as before. If I didn't play the Spiritborn, who is completely busted this season, it might've taken even longer. I still gotta try the raid, which you can only do coop, although I rarely play with someone else.

Then I started HROT, but have only finished the first level, so I can't talk about it too much. It seems like it's basically just Quake with a different skin, I guess? I love the look, and it plays pretty smoothly, so I look forward to playing more of it.

More Diablo 4, after finally getting over my cold. Playing through the campaign was super boring (being sick and miserable didn't help). All that time is also basically wasted, and you just want it to be over as fast as possible, to actually start progressing your character. Future seasons might be better, since you can skip the campaign, but a bunch of stuff only unlocks after you hit max level anyway, so who knows. The expansion increased the difficulty of the game, added some more difficulty options and did a stat squish, but I don't think I'm a big fan. Until yesterday, it felt like I was just treading water, not making much progress. Then I managed to unlock Torment 3 difficulty, change my build a bit and get good enough gear, started blasting through enemies, and had more fun. So, while I'm not bored out of my skull anymore, I think I'll just finish the season journey and battle pass, and then take another break from the game.

I really enjoyed the first game years ago, but never really got into the sequel the few times I tried, although I never disliked it.

I played Tunic last December and loved it, and while I found a lot of stuff, I definitely needed some help to get the good ending. I was definitely glad to have done so though.

~250 games testet, about 90% worked without issue.

Some games were hard coded to avoid Intel graphics and would use the AMD iGPU by default (even a newer title like Alan Wake 2 did this), but after disabling the iGPU, most of those were fine.

I think like 10-15 games didn't work at all or had basically unplayable performance, maybe a few more with graphical glitches, some minor, some more noticeable.

DD1 already was full of microtransactions, but in the sequel they "ruin" the game? What changed for you?

I'm generally having fun with Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, but unlocking and upgrading all the weapons is a huge chore. Also, every time I'm finally blasting my way through all the bugs, the run is basically over, so I wish there was an extended or even endless mode, so I can just mow down everything for a while.

Then I played some more Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin, tried out a few different builds, but nothing really stuck with me. I'll give it a bit more time, but I might take another break soon.

Finally, I picked up Dyson Sphere Program again. I'm still really early, and the beginning in these types of games is always a bit slow for me, so it takes me some time to really get into it. However, if I get over this hump, I'm usually really addicted for a while, so let's see how it goes this time.

It also stinks that the first PC version will almost certainly end up being on Epic before steam.

Square is super inconsistent with this stuff, that it's pretty hard to tell what's going to be an Epic Exclusive and what's not. I do hope there's not going to be a second exclusivity period, before it's coming to Steam though.

Nioh 2 and Satisfactory

It was just a short reply about the top played games on Steam (by playtime), but of course it has to be expanded to a whole, useless article, along with a clickbait headline.