Palworld (XB/PC/Game Pass) - Fight, farm, build & work with "Pals". 15m sold on Steam & Over 10m players on Xbox.

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Tomous wrote:

site23 wrote:Survival isn't my genre, but I unironically think it's super cool that a small team ripped off Pokemon, were smart enough to get away with it, and became one of the biggest games in the world overnight. Real David and Goliath stuff. Good for them!

The development process sounds nuts too. Hiring modding enthusiasts off twitter when they hit programming roadblocks. It's amazing that it came together into a finished product.

I knew it was their first time developing a complex game but I hadn't heard it was that fraught! That's pretty incredible.

This gives some insight into the process

I spent some time glitching boss captures last night (the Tower bosses you're not supposed to be abke to capture).

Get a wanted level then go to a Tower and start the boss fight. The soldiers hunting you will spawn into the fight. Don't hurt the boss yourself, get a soldier to shoot them. The boss will start running away, then any ball will catch them (it says 0% chance but it still works).

They work just as if you'd caught the actual pal, but they keep the little human riding them, and they have insane amounts of health.

Obviously there are very few truly original titles nowadays but it's disappointing to see one as creatively bankrupt as this reach the success it has. Each to their own, I guess.

Photek wrote:The wonder of finding new 'pals' to catch is why this is SO different to other survival sims, and the opening area at least looks stunning, draw distance is VERY impressive even for the pals themselves. They do need to knock the resolution on Xbox Series X down a tad as it's full 4K and hovers around the 45fps mark, a 1440p/60 would be better.

I started the game this afternoon and you must have cataracts if you think the game looks stunning. It looks worse than Breath of the Wild and the whole thing looks and feels cheap. Go and climb something and watch at how your character goes through the animation without any real connection to the wall.

The lack of detail and textures make it feel like a teenager's bedroom modding project and the game feels like something from about 2005 (the UI compounds this).

The game very cynically treads the fine line between "being inspired by" and "creatively stealing from". I would imagine that Nintendo won't legally get involved with this for that reason. I guess the developers deserve some credit for stealing ("being inspired by") the best aspects of some very popular titles and merging them together, but it all feels a bit grubby, doesnt it? The game is fairly obviously designed about getting players on grindy, addictive progress treadmills.

The end result so far is a game that strikes me as completely soulless and one that invokes no emotion with me when I play it.

Having given this another go on Gamepass it's starting to click with me a little bit more, to the point that I'm considering getting the Steam version to have it on my Steam Deck for portable play.

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Palworld Becomes the Biggest 3rd Party Game Pass Launch Ever

Summary
Palworld has been played by more than 7M players on Xbox, and is the biggest 3rd party launch in Game Pass history.
Palworld is the most-played 3rd party day one release via cloud gaming with Game Pass Ultimate.
Palworld (Game Preview) is out now for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and Windows PC, and is available with Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass.

It’s no secret that Palworld has been sweeping the gaming world since its Early Access launch earlier this month – and we’re happy to announce that, in its first ten days as part of Xbox Game Preview, Xbox players have made it the biggest 3rd party Game Pass launch in history! You’ve also helped Palworld to become the most-played 3rd party day one launch on Xbox Cloud Gaming with Game Pass Ultimate.

Across console and Windows PC, Palworld has welcomed more than 7 million players, and has recently reached a peak of nearly 3 million daily active users on Xbox, making it the most-played game on our platforms at that time.

On Xbox’s part, we’re working with Pocketpair to help provide support for Xbox versions of the game. We’re providing support to enable dedicated servers, offering engineering resources to help with GPU and memory optimization, speeding up the process to make Palworld updates available for players, and working with the team to optimize the title for our platform.

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My son is playing and loving this on Xbox.

But he wants to ride his Rushoar pet. He's crafted the correct saddle and I can see it in the inventory. But we cannot work out how to actually ride the damn thing. Online guides are strawberry floating useless and even just control guides only say things like:

Attack / Riding Skill 1 RT
Summon Pal / Ride Skill 2 LB
Roll / Crouch / Riding Skill 3 LS

We've tried all those buttons, mashing those buttons, holding them down. Nothing.

Is the game glitched, or are we missing something?

Cheers

Moggy wrote:My son is playing and loving this on Xbox.

But he wants to ride his Rushoar pet. He's crafted the correct saddle and I can see it in the inventory. But we cannot work out how to actually ride the damn thing. Online guides are strawberry floating useless and even just control guides only say things like:

Attack / Riding Skill 1 RT
Summon Pal / Ride Skill 2 LB
Roll / Crouch / Riding Skill 3 LS

We've tried all those buttons, mashing those buttons, holding them down. Nothing.

Is the game glitched, or are we missing something?

Cheers

On PC at least I know that you have to press E to get the pal out and it's running next to you then you have to hold F for ages for it to actually get you on.

Qikz wrote:

Moggy wrote:My son is playing and loving this on Xbox.

But he wants to ride his Rushoar pet. He's crafted the correct saddle and I can see it in the inventory. But we cannot work out how to actually ride the damn thing. Online guides are strawberry floating useless and even just control guides only say things like:

Attack / Riding Skill 1 RT
Summon Pal / Ride Skill 2 LB
Roll / Crouch / Riding Skill 3 LS

We've tried all those buttons, mashing those buttons, holding them down. Nothing.

Is the game glitched, or are we missing something?

Cheers

On PC at least I know that you have to press E to get the pal out and it's running next to you then you have to hold F for ages for it to actually get you on.

Cheers, we've got the pal out, but it's doing nothing. So frustrating!

Throw the pal and hold down x to ride him on Xbox. He's the only Pal I've ridden so far on Xbox so it works for me.

Monkey Man wrote:Throw the pal and hold down x to ride him on Xbox. He's the only Pal I've ridden so far on Xbox so it works for me.

We'll try that tomorrow, thanks

Moggy wrote:

Monkey Man wrote:Throw the pal and hold down x to ride him on Xbox. He's the only Pal I've ridden so far on Xbox so it works for me.

We'll try that tomorrow, thanks

The clue is in the name but Rushoar makes mining ore very quick. Smack into a rock pile with his rush attack.

Anyone tried this on Steam Deck that can confirm if it runs ok?

aayl1 wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Monkey Man wrote:Throw the pal and hold down x to ride him on Xbox. He's the only Pal I've ridden so far on Xbox so it works for me.

We'll try that tomorrow, thanks

The clue is in the name but Rushoar makes mining ore very quick. Smack into a rock pile with his rush attack.

It's press X for every 'Pals' special move if you make the proper equipment for it, you can pick ups a Foxparks and use it as a flame thrower, I also throw him down in my base to make ingots and speed up my cooking.

The Rushoar is great at mining in your base (after making a mine of course).

I made a saddle for a nightwing and was a little annoyed that it's flight is tied to my stamina, which is not a thing for any Pals you ride around on.

Photek wrote:

aayl1 wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Monkey Man wrote:Throw the pal and hold down x to ride him on Xbox. He's the only Pal I've ridden so far on Xbox so it works for me.

We'll try that tomorrow, thanks

The clue is in the name but Rushoar makes mining ore very quick. Smack into a rock pile with his rush attack.

It's press X for every 'Pals' special move if you make the proper equipment for it, you can pick ups a Foxparks and use it as a flame thrower, I also throw him down in my base to make ingots and speed up my cooking.

The Rushoar is great at mining in your base (after making a mine of course).

I made a saddle for a nightwing and was a little annoyed that it's flight is tied to my stamina, which is not a thing for any Pals you ride around on.

We figured it out in the end, the Pal had to be equipped, we couldn't just jump on a random Rushoar.

My lad seems to love this game. I'm not a fan.

I love it to be honest, the framerate on Series X is killing me though, really tanks, bizarrely it runs better on Series S as it's 1080p but that's in my daughters room and is purely a 'Persona Box' these days.

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Wonder how many people are still playing it? It was everywhere for a few weeks but seems to have died down. Definitely seems a bit like a flash in a pan, and I wonder when the game's full release will come out.