Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal are probably the kings of this for me. Metal: Hellsinger too but that’s a rhythm fighting game

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

Finally completed the Ada DLC for Resident Evil 4. Was way more fun than I expected it to be. Immediately did a few more runthroughs, including a professional, and am now prepping for an S+ runthrough of it.

Also started Alan Wake 2 but that thing starts really slow and have to get into a mood for that. I ended up backing out and going back to Baldurs Gate 3. I think this thing just has me permanently hooked now.

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

Said literally no one ever

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

Been playing the closed beta and I know it’s a beta but the game releases in 7 days. Not a whole lot you can do in that time.

The game is still really unpolished and feels jarring. The opening section has you in a rather large vessel but the thing turns on a dime. Only water craft able to turn like that is a jetski and even that didn’t have the super tight turning radius this thing did. There was also no time in turning. It felt really jarring, especially when Black Flag did it so well.

The voice acting of the characters you start with is extremely uninspired. I don’t blame the actors but the director who decided this was okay. It’s so jarring and disconnected. Characters aren’t even consistent on pronunciation of simple things.

The combat is hyper simplistic. It’s just hold left trigger to aim and then hold right trigger to fire. A quote I said to my buddy while playing was “Huh. My pirate ship is fully automatic.” The cannonballs just kept firing more and more until I needed a reload, then more and more. Everything is bulletspongey and nothing visually seems to change or update to sort of reflect the damage that you’re doing. Most vessels you fight against have multiple giant red boxes where the helm is located and those boxes are explosive and almost guarantee a one hit kill. It just feels so basic and simple and boring. When you complete the opening battle and get your own small craft, you start getting attacked by sharks who are leaping out of the water to attack the boat. Not you. The boat. Because that makes sense. And you have to attack and kill the sharks by throwing harpoons at it, also super simple point and click. Think the fish fight in Resident Evil 4 Remake or even RE4 OG.

Walking around on the ground is painful. You can’t sprint, for a start, and the character will either keep walking for another few feet when you stop or suddenly stop. This leads you to getting used to the trail so you stop preemptively and end up 5 feet away from the thing you need to do, forcing you to start walking again and that animation is also way too long.

One of the locations you have to go to at the start is called ‘West Island’. I’m sorry but how simple and boring do you have to be at the start of the game to just lazily call it West Island because it’s in the west?

This game is awful. It’s a patchwork disaster which is only made more concerning by that article saying that the third creative director just left the game before it even launches.

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

As someone who just downloaded Sea of Thieves on the PC, thanks!

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

It felt like a f2p game. I play a decent amount of Star Trek Online and spend some time with some other free games. SnB has the same unpolished vibe. Like you’re seeing the framework of the entire game with posters hung over holes in the wall

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

Fucking same. My friend told me two days ago the open beta was out and that’s when I discovered the Feb 16th launch date.

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

Linus Sr

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

In the first Metal Gear Solid there was a character named Psycho Mantis who had a lot of psychic/mind reading gimmicks. One such way of doing so was to input read everything from your controller and blocking all of your attacks. Another way was reading your memory card and talking about the games you play, name dropping them specifically and talking about genres. All of that is really clever on its own but to get around his input reading you had to plug the controller into the second player slot as he wasn’t able to read that “mind”.

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

Star Trek Online is what comes to mind immediately for me

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

Yeah… As said, I made a comment saying I disagreed with the memes being disallowed and almost immediately it was removed and I was banned. I noticed a few minutes later and sent it to a few people like “Dudes lost his mind.” Wasn’t long after that he just exploded. I mean it was hilariously stupid because we can reinstate all the posts with very little effort, and putting up a new banner or icon isn’t exactly heavy lifting either.

As for memes… yes. My whole comment said that I wasn’t sure of the difference between here and /c/games if memes weren’t allowed. As @Thekingoflorda suggested, he doesn’t seem to have an issue with memes. I certainly don’t. @JonsJava I haven’t had a chance to have a good chat with but we will at some point today and we’ll figure out the rules and stuff but I suspect that they’re not going to have an issue with memes. Although I do not want to speak on their behalf and guarantee nothing, mind you.

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

My guy, I have 6 meme communities under my belt. I’m not controlling anything serious. Also comparing me to Stalin is a bit insane considering the worst I could do is ban someone. Moreover, I actively look for others to work with and do not like being a moderator. I do it because no one else does but it’s stressful and I would very much rather just post shit.

Stamets, 9 miesięcy temu

👍

Stamets, 10 miesięcy temu

Way too much World of Warships

Stamets, 10 miesięcy temu

I did this to someone once. They messaged me after I lost saying I was awful and shit and whatever so I just responded with “Lol but I won”. Took him completely off guard. “No. I won. Were you not paying attention?” I just kept saying I won and he got more and more angry until he the messages were just all caps rage.

Some people are too easy.

Stamets, 10 miesięcy temu

I had this in Warhammer 40k: Darktide the other day. I had VC, this guy didn’t and was on Xbox so typing was difficult. He was doing some really bizarre shit and I just said “Man what the hell are you doing?” And he just looked at me and crouched repeatedly, slowly, and stared and I just said “Okay” and followed him.

He knew of a shortcut on the map that none of us knew about that took us down some paths with a ton of items that were hella useful.

Stamets, 10 miesięcy temu

Yeah. Elden Ring applies to the waves too. Bows and crouches? Respect. Waves? They’re gonna be a toxic prick.