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Oh my god, I didn’t know how complex Dwarf Fortress is (I’ve played rimworld so I’m familiar)
Yeah, no, it's ridiculously, nonsensically complex. In the most delightful and unexpected ways. Like, it's not necessarily complex in the ways that you think it is or should be complex. It's complex in ways that you never even would've imagined. For no real reason. Just because.
I’m digging rimworld and have df owned but odd sometimes the names of things are “fuzzy” to my eyes. maybe font, coloring, whatever … I just can’t find myself connecting to the names. I’ll keep trying though.
Check your resolution and scaling settings if it's literally blurry. If you're not using an integer multiple of your monitor's native resolution, fonts can become hard to read because they don't scale evenly into the pixels available. Sometimes games launch for the first time with weird defaults for resolution, so worth having a look if you haven't already.
here's an example of an online calculator, in case anyone else faces similar problems:
https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/technology/aspect-ratio-calculator.php
there's a bunch out there, doesn't matter much which one you use; it's a simple way to calculate ratios, so you don't need to do it by hand.
i like this one because of the "nearest standard resolution" hint!
oh solid point. i’m going to check that.
You can give them nicknames in game if that makes it easier. You can also change the pool of names or even the entire dwarven language if you want, it's all text files (at least in the ascii version, not sure about Steam)
thanks!! good ideas.
I’ve seen and picked up describing Rimworld as Dwarf Fortress for babies (positive). Sometimes I want a baby game! Like, 1000+ hours of a baby game. Don’t judge me.
Yeah Rimworld is definitely my go to if I want to play DF but don't have the energy to deal with the complexity of DF. Both are great.